Quote by Theodore Bikel
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares

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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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. – Theodore Bikel

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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. – Theodore Bikel

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we dont start measuring her limbs. – Pablo Picasso

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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. – Stanley Kubrick

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. – W. H. Auden

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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. – Robert Frost

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Christmas is the day that holds all time together. – Alexander Smith

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Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show. – Danny Masterson

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