A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.
– Anthony Burgess
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- Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not — and decides to take offence. – Anton Chekhov
- A statue is just a statue until someone comes along and says it is beautiful. Then it starts to enjoy the magnificence of life. – Debasish Mridha
- You are organic, aren’t you? Or am I talking to a statue again? – Christina Daley
- …as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch. – Donna Tartt
- Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free-”albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe. – Flora Rheta Schreiber
- Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. – Bill Maher
- I wanted to grab his stupid ears and smash his stupid head against the door until his stupid brains leaked out. Instead, I did nothing. – Cat Clarke
- The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself. – Henry Rollins
- Age does not matter if you’re chasing your dream. As long as you work hard and smash those obstacles in your way, you’ll see some progress. – BA Gabrielle
- I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting. – Juan Miro
- Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting – Leonardo da Vinci
- Perception is like painting a scenery – no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself. – Abhijit Naskar
- Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer. – Kevin James Breaux
- Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. – Boris Pasternak
- A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. – Anthony Burgess
- I can’t accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. – Anthony Burgess
- When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art…and you’re the artist and no one else paints your life for you. – Sotero M Lopez II
- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. – Robert McKee
- … food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection. – EA Bucchianeri
- We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions. – Bryant McGill
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Know the other person’s viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence. – Dada Bhagwan
- It is gracious to overlook an offence. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- It is gracious to overlook an offence. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- It is gracious to overlook and offence. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured. – Sri Aurobindo
- Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured. – Sri Aurobindo
- Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
- Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life? – Slash Coleman
- I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. – Murray N Rothbard
- -¦ Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool. – Frederick Forsyth
- I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard….. – Andy Flynn
- He picked the one Cinderella on earth who would smash the glass slipper and cut off a few toes to keep Prince Charming from finding her. – Amanda Usen
- …an’ there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel – Neil M Gunn
- Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant. – Don DeLillo
- While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe. – Amanda Hocking
- In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. – Anthony Burgess
- Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. – Julian Assange