"Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing."

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Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010

A. S. Byatt

#Art Quotes #Doe Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.”
“It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.”
“Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.”
“By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.”

Source : Anthony Collins (1713). “A Discourse of Free-thinking: Occasion'd by the Rise and Growth of a Sect Call'd Free-thinkers ...”, p.10
“Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?”
“The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.”

Source : "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.
“My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.”

Source : "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". Book by Hans Arp, p. 327, 1958.

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