25 result(s) for Quotes About Rescuing Cultural And Artistic Achievements.
"To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots."
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
"The arts are essential to any complete education. They are a key to understanding and appreciating the world around us."
"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows."
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
"The destruction of art is a tragic expression of a culture's self-hatred."
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness."
"The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose."
"We must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself transforms the world we see."
"To deny a people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and through art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
"A great library contains the diary of the human race."
"Without culture, and relative freedom that it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why all authentic creation is a gift to the future."
"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
"The future will judge us by what we did to preserve the past."
"If we don't know our past, we don't know our present and cannot plan responsibly for the future."
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"The power of culture to resist subjugation springs from its independence, which is what makes it so offensive to totalitarian minds."
"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand."
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
