"Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind."

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Source : "It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent". Book by Rockwell Kent, 1955.

Rockwell Kent

#Art Quotes #Communication Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.”
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
“The Russians were all really accommodating, and that made it really special. To be allowed in Catherine's Summer Palace...Lily [James] and I have this scene where we fall in love and we waltz up and down this enormous gold hall with thousands of candles and a live orchestra and 300 Russian extras. To do those scenes in situ really meant it was a once-in-a-lifetime job.”

Source : "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.
“An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.”

Source : Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”
“Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.”
“I think I've chosen the right path.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.”
“The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.”

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