45 result(s) for Quotes About Rescuing Artistic And Cultural Achievements.
"The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose... and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization."
"A country's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
"The destruction of cultural monuments is always accompanied by the degradation of man."
"To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots."
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
"Every book changed my life. Every movie changed my life. That's what I do. I allow myself to be influenced. "
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"A great library contains the diary of the human race."
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that, Its office is to make us better."
"Copyright is the basis of all artistic and scientific development. It is that which makes progress possible."
"It is through art and through art only that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
"Art is not a luxury, but a necessity."
"The mission of art is to represent nature not copy it. "
"“The work of art is already within the block of marble. I’m simply removing what doesn’t belong.”"
"Every good painter paints what he is."
"A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into."
"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
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"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
"The power of music increases proportionally with the level of one's intelligence."
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
"The value of culture is its effect on character."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
"Without culture, and relative freedom which it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
"The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes."
"A country without vision runs to extinction."
"The soul is healed by being with children."
"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
"The real wealth of a nation is its culture."
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"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."
"Art is the signature of civilizations."
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
"A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasurable."
"Our culture is the cumulative effect of our beliefs and actions."
"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
"The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose."
