Art Before Modernism Quotes & Sayings

Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away of moral opprobrium from our memory of Hitler. In another fifty years we may well find ourselves weighed down by a second monstrous dream of pure grandeur to match that of the Emperor. Two men who dared. Two men who were adored. Two men who led with brilliance. Two men who administered fairly and efficiently. Two men who were modest in their own needs but surrounded by lesser beings who profited from their situation and came between the Hero and the people. — John Ralston Saul

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true. — Elijah Wood

If you've got a suicide wish, it's not my place to stop you tying the rope. — Anna Martin

We all have pasts that haunt us, Mr. McLeod. — Ramona Flightner

Make Sperm Wars, Not Real Wars! — Susan Block

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear. — Samuel Johnson

Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth. We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it. — Jason Mraz

And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream. — Jean Baudrillard

Things were progressing as expected, which was to say that she had lost control of her life. In — Maggie Osborne

Knowing that it is the earth we tread, we learn to tread carefully, lest it be rent open. Realizing that it is the heavens that hang above us, we come to fear the echoing thunderbolt. The world demands that we battle with others for the sake of our own reputation, and so we undergo the sufferings bred of illusion. While we live in this world with its daily business, forced to walk the tightrope of profit and loss, true love is an empty thing, and the wealth before our eyes mere dust. — Soseki Natsume

Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan. — Cynthia Kenyon

The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice. — Anthony Hopkins

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. — Monica Lewinsky

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me. — Emraan Hashmi