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Translation is the art of failure. - Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure. – Umberto Eco

Other quotes by Umberto Eco

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco

Category:
Truth
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Umberto Eco
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In the United States theres a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. – Umberto Eco

Category:
Success
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Umberto Eco
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Other Quotes from
Art
category

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. Its the aim of art to give it some. – Jean Anouilh

Category:
Art

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves Its pretty, but is it Art? – Rudyard Kipling

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Art

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. – Rabindranath Tagore

Category:
Art

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It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions. – Harvey Milk

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Money

If my kid couldnt draw Id make sure that my kitchen magnets didnt work. – Mitch Hedberg

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work

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended. – Kurt Sutter

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Humor

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. – Gertrude Stein

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Art