Quote by Beverly Sills
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individua

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. – Beverly Sills

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for mans anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. – Beverly Sills

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My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics – they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled – even though it meant budgeting like crazy. – Jennifer Garner

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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You cant invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. – David Herbert Lawrence

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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. – James Whistler

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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. – William Morris

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I think about dying. Ive come to realize we all die alone in one way or another. – Richard Pryor

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The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You can heal your body with food. – Stacy Keibler

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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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