"Language is a social art."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Art, Ugly, Beauty, Charm, Morality

"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."

"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."

"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."

"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."

"To be is to be the value of a variable."

"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."

"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."