Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Art and Culture Sayings


Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
                                                                                         By: Ayn Rand 

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.
                                                                                         By: Ayn Rand
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
                                                                                         By: Ayn Rand

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Alexander Pope

Most authors steal their works, or buy.
Alexander Pope  

Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.

                                                                              Bertrand Russell            

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