"On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues."

-- Jacques Barzun

#Art Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Issues Quotes

“I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.”
“For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.”
“And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'”
“The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.”
“My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

Source : 'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141
“Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.”

Source : "A Clinton Report Card, So Far" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.
“Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.”

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