"The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art."

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Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

Frederick C. Beiser

#Art Quotes #Creating Quotes #World Quotes

“This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.”
“It took us 2,000 years to find Noah’s Ark. Do we ever find Flight 370?”

Source : "Fox News Host: When Will Missing Plane Be Found If It ‘Took Us 2,000 Years To Find Noah’s Ark’?" by Katherine Fung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.
“My father got along with everyone.”
“Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”
“That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.”
“Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.”
“To change, it takes a decision based on faith, faith takes forgetting everything you thought you knew.”
“Pride is never so loud as when in chains.”

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