"Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world,"

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Source : Dana Gioia's commencement address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 17, 2007.

Dana Gioia

#Art Quotes #Understanding Quotes #World Quotes

“It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.”
“Don't let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners.”
“There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.”
“While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.”
“One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.”
“In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be ...”
“An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'”

Source : "Midlife and Fantasy at 42 — Claire Messud’s New Novel Resonates". Interview with Heidi Legg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

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