Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
– Scott McCloud
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- We follow the rules of Jungle.survival, survival, survival. – Haritha Velpureddy
- There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap – Kirtida Gautam
- I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear. – Tupac Shakur
- Sex is flagrantly separated from reproduction in a few species, including bonobos and dolphins. – Jared Diamond
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- The human species’ foremost task and unshakable duty is survival. – Carlos J Cortes
- There are no laws set in stones, follow your basic instincts, they contain the laws that guide you existence. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. – Nora Ephron
- Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says -˜All for me’ is a horror to us. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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- Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other. – Kim John Payne
- Activity never equaled productivity. Inspect every activity to ensure you are producing right. – Bidemi MarkMordi
- For basic survival, as for evolution, we have to accept the past as the creator of the present, influence the future, and act in the present. – Daniel Egger
- What I understand now about survival is that something in you dies. You don’t become a survivor intact. Survival’s cost is always loss. – J Dylan Yates
- The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time. – Richard Rohr
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- Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. – Howard Scott
- Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human. – Jonathan Smith
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- There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production. – Andrew Solomon
- According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life. – Friedrich Engels
- big-bang reproduction, or semelparity: a single reproductive effort, followed by preprogrammed death. – Jared Diamond
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- Understanding the principles of reproduction is to multiply – Sunday Adelaja
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- Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow. – Sarah J Maas
- We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness. – Mary E DeMuth
- Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. – Chuck Palahniuk
- Hobbies may eventually grow into a major activity that brings money – Sunday Adelaja
- Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don’t think yourself into success. – Mark Sanborn
- Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it. – Richard Matturro
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- Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity. – Rasheed Ogunlaru