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

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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Knowledge
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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Writing
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Other Quotes from
Art
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Art is pictures straight from the heart. – Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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Art

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. – Lionel Trilling

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Art

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. – Theodore Bikel

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Art

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. – Peter Robert Fleming

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Beginnings

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act. – Anne Campbell

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Education

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

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Rock n Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. Thats what rock n roll should do – take you to a better place. – Meat Loaf

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Music