"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?"

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Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.142

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#Wise Quotes #Pay Quotes #Attention Quotes

“War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.”
“The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Music, and art for that matter, to me is not about true meaning to anyone else but yourself. If I told you the meaning of it all from my point of view it would erase the intimacy of art. I feel like art is up for interpretation, so if I told you my meaning, how could you truly relate it to anything that â€œyouâ€ personally are going through?? That is the beauty of art and music in particular”
“Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.”
“I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.”
“The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.”
“Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.”

Source : "A life in books". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.
“It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.”

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