Quote by Chinua Achebe
Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different orde

Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe

Other quotes by Chinua Achebe

Ive had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. – Chinua Achebe

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Religion
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats the time to do something about it, not when its around your neck. – Chinua Achebe

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Time
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What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world. – Emir Kusturica

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Art

Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall

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Art

I didnt grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. – Sydney Pollack

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Art

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. – David Rockefeller

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Art

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I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet. – Angelina Jolie

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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Its like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and Im so not that. I never was that Ill never be that. That is part of the business that I dont like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I dont know. But thats fine. – Chloe Sevigny

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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. – Wole Soyinka

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