If you want to understand what’s most important to a society, don’t examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
– Joseph Campbell
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- 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
- What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important. – Hemanta Bhatt
- No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you. – Matt Haig
- Learn about art, Captain. When you understand a species’ art, you understand that species. – Grand Admiral Thrawn
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
- The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide. – Robert E Neale
- Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream. – Ryan Lilly
- Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art. – Megan Frazer Blakemore
- Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. – Leo Tolstoy
- If you want to understand yourself,Then do not examine yourself.Just love yourself more sincerely,More soulfullyAnd more self-givingly. – Sri Chinmoy
- …there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness. – Robert Jackson Bennett
- When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work. – Joseph Campbell
- Society has failed its inhabitants, just as its inhabitants have failed society. – Anthony T Hinkcs
- My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen. – Rudy Francisco
- God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause. – Mandy Hale
- In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying. – Edgar H Schein
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- We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
- Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
- We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
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- I constantly yearn to celebrate life & its infinite manifestations, to examine the details of everything including the human heart & mind. – Jay Woodman
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- Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators. – Alastair Reynolds
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- Some people build houses, buildings. I don’t. I build stories. ~ Ryan Mark, Author – Ryan Mark