#or

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) ↗

— Benjamin Constant

#art-for-art-s-sake #art

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember. ↗

— Garth Stein

#memory #racing #success #truth #art

Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, as he passed Parker through. A government tourist hostess approached him."Are you Mr. Mark Parker?""Guilty. ↗

— Leon Uris

#heroin #security #art

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#detroit #few #following #history #nhl

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible. ↗

— Roma Tearne

#color #perception #art

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from ↗

— Rolf Potts

#running-away #work #art

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art. ↗

— William Faulkner

#morality #writing #art

If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you ↗

— Shannon Dermott

#paranormal-romance #art

People regard art too highly, and history not enough ↗

— John Irving

#common-sense #history #art

Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation ↗

— Angela Y. Davis

#author #emancipation #art