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Letter "D" » decay
«In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.»
Author: Ernst Fischer
(Chemist, Educator)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
decay, decaying, reflect, social change, social changes, social function, truthful
«He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.»
Author: Harold Wilson
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Change,
Progress
| Keywords:
architect, cemeteries, cemetery, decay, institution, rejects
«Let us together closely lie and kiss, There is no labor, no shame in this: This hath pleased, doth please, and long will please, never, Can this decay, but is beginning ever»
«He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from starlike eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away»
«I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.»
«Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.»
«Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.»
«I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.»
«Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote»
«I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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accidental, brought, decay, defeated, differently, drawing, expected, Great Wall, here and there, How does, impulse, invisible, iron, one iron, series, take heart, wall, willed, working
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