#cult

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#difficult #effort #great #great art #never

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#code #culture #ethics #every #needs

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before. ↗

— Diana Rigg

#been #before #biggest #career #difficult

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#easy #gonna #had #hard #i

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#agriculture #community #concern #economy #food

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind. ↗

— Theodore Robinson

#difficult #directly #helps #mind #nature

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#difficult #get #played #radio

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#american #classical #classical music #comes #cultural

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model. ↗

— Justin Sane

#attempts #because #completely #consumer #culture

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#generating #great #joy #multiplying #opportunities