#distinct

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ↗

— Jane Austen

#aim #destroys #distinction #dress #excessive

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone. ↗

— James Baldwin

#alone #artist #avoid #being #being alone

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. ↗

— Abba Eban

#any #between #chief #dialogue #distinction

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? ↗

— Samuel Butler

#distinctly #excluded #felicity #general #heaven

Art is anything people do with distinction. ↗

— Louis Dudek

#art #distinction #people

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#distinct #early #experiences #me #personalities

The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#electric #electric light #fit #harmonies #how

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#artists #brushes #cameras #categories #created

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#between #bible #called #cannot #difference