"The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple."

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Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #Purple Quotes

“But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.”
“One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.”
“When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.”
“A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity of the photograph in order to correct my own way of seeing: for instance, if I draw an object from nature, I start to stylize and to change it in accordance with my personal vision and my training. But if I paint from a photograph, I can forget all the criteria that I get from these sources. I can paint against my will, as it were. And that, to me, felt like an enrichment.”
“It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.”
“All that can be said with truth of this Absolute and Supreme Reality is that IT IS. This must suffice.”

Source : Israel Regardie (1972). “The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic”, p.45, Weiser Books
“I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.”
“Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.”

Source : "Religion and schools don't mix" by Björn Ulvaeus, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.

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