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#intellect

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Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.


Ray Conniff


#artists #difference #intellectuals #just #just one

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.


Susan Sontag


#intellectual #interpretation #revenge #upon

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.


Havelock Ellis


#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.


Jerome Lawrence


#inherit #instance #intellectual #musical #opera

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.


Ernst Mach


#every #fact #forced #general #his

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.


John Gresham Machen


#also #alternative #conservative #could #criticism

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.


Chris Patten


#am #baggage #bit #britain #carried

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.


Annie Proulx


#brevity #find #i #intellectually #intensity

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.


Marcel Proust


#incapable #intellectuals #like #many #saying

Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.


Jonathan Franzen


#anger






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