"Every decided colour does a certain violence..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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“A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.”
“The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.”
“But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.”
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“To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.”
“That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.”
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
More on Art
“I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.”
“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”
“Stand-up is an art but since it's humor and it's funny - a lot of guys that don't think it's art are probably coming from the angle that they don't want to take it so seriously. I've always looked at it as an art but I don't look at it as a pretentious art. I understand it has to be taken lightly because it is just comedy in the end, but the good stand-up comics are someone with something to say.”