Quote by Rebecca West
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artis

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. – Rebecca West

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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being ones own Trojan horse. – Rebecca West

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mom
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

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Life
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill

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Art

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, The Clock is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. Theres likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block – West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues – than in all of Amsterdams or Hamburgs galleries. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. – Oscar Wilde

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Art

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Thats a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals. – Peter Singer

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I dont really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it. – David Steinberg

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When youre wounded and left on Afghanistans plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. – Rudyard Kipling

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When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them. – Allen Klein

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