"There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless."

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Source : Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee

Clive Bell

#Art Quotes #Quality Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much of Fernando Pessoa's work. I get restless for a new kind of influence. The books I've translated are books I want to learn from as a writer, to be intoxicated by. And translation is an act of writing in itself. It's an act of recreation - of a writer's cadence and tone and everything that distinguishes the voice in the book.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.”
“Weâ€™re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.”
“What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.”
“In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware”

Source : Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press
“Robin Roberts - what a trailblazer she has been in sports TV! One of the best in TV.”
“It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.”

Source : Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.163, Cambridge University Press
“If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.”

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