Reductivist Art Quotes & Sayings

I said that the question about death, and more precisely, the confusion about death, lies at the very heart of human understanding, and in the final analysis, the relation of man to life, that which we call his worldview, is ultimately determined by his relationship to death.
All of civilization seems to be permeated with a passionate obsession to stifle this fear of death and the sense of the meaninglessness of life that oozes out of it like a slow-dripping poison. What is this intense conflict with religion, if nothing other than a mindless attempt to root out of human consciousness the memory and concern with death and consequently the question: why do I live in this brief and fragile life? — Alexander Schmemann

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally. — David Friedman

The brain's dense thicket of interrelationships, like those of history or art, does not yield to the reductivist's bright blade. (91) — Thomas Lewis

The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation. — Walter Isaacson

But if you are a poor creature
poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels
saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion
nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends
do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself. — C.S. Lewis

Maybe that's what the night is for, just so's we can know the difference when the light comes again. — Howard Bahr

Who knows what succession of girls and boys sneak in through the sliding glass doors at night, after the mother has sunk to the bottom of her own private lake, with the help of Absolut and Klonopin? — Michael Cunningham

Invites us to jump off the hamster wheel of consumption and experience the pinch of abstaining from thoughtless indulgence. — Anonymous

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains. — T.F. Hodge

Who are you?"
"For you, Honey...I'm trouble. — Lisa Kleypas