"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."

Art, Religion, People, Intolerance

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"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Art, Husband, Job

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Art, Being, Modernity

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."

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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."

Values

"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs."

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"Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic."

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"The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"History develops, art stands still."

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Explore more quotes by Wallace Stevens

"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."

"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."

"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs."

"Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic."

"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."

"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."

"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking."

"The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it."

"Money is a kind of poetry."

"The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence."