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Quote by John Cheever
Art is the triumph over chaos. - John Cheever

Art is the triumph over chaos. – John Cheever

Other quotes by John Cheever

I cant write without a reader. Its precisely like a kiss – you cant do it alone. – John Cheever

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alone
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John Cheever
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

Category:
Beauty
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John Cheever
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. – Karl Kraus

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Art

Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. – Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891

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Art

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

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Art

Shadows sometimes people dont see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. – David Hockney

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Art

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My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And thats all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment. – Eric Stoltz

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Food

I look at each episode in two ways – from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint – this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels. – Douglas Wilson

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design

Im an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen. – Stephen Moyer

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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. – Desmond Tutu

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