"If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor."

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Source : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

Ethel Smyth

#Art Quotes #Humble Quotes #Race Quotes

“Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.”
“At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.”

Source : Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). “Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien”
“As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again.”
“But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.”
“What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.”

Source : "Dying in Darfur" by Samantha Power, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2004.
“When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?”
“And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.”
“Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.”

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