"[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven."

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Source : Source: muse.jhu.edu

Denis Dutton

#Appreciation Quotes #Art Quotes #Years Quotes

“In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.”
“It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.”
“Begin with the simplest examples.”

Source : "Hilbert - Courant". Book by Constance Reid, p. 104, 1984.
“Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.”

Source : Rufus Choate (1883). “Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate”
“God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.”
“Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.”
“The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.”
“I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didnt really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didnt have a great love for it.”

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