"All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics."

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August Wilson

#Art Quotes #Political Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.”
“Being on the road, because you do so much waiting and so much traveling. It's not the same thing as being in the same city for a week or two weeks and then another city. It's really hard. I don't think people understand this about being a touring musician, or a touring actor, or somebody who flies everywhere for business. It's incredibly disorienting.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.”

Source : Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.43, BookBaby
“What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?”
“A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.”
“In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!”
“I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.”
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.578, Routledge

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