#idea

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

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I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#before #being #cry #every #hated

When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#attach #core #experience #go #ideas

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#expanded #ideas #larger #mind #never

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#idea #mind #never #new #new idea

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#although #being #beyond #civilized #got

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#better #grow #ideas #into #many

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#dimensions #goes #idea #man #mind

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock. ↗

— Joshua Homme

#alter #always #expression #humble #idea

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#does #dogmatism #foolishness #idealism #ignorance