I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If Arnold is elected, you know who I'd feel sorry for? The people on death row. Imagine, you're about to be executed, the governor calls, you think it's your reprieve, and you hear 'Hasta la vista, baby.'”
“If Arnold's leap to the British was to succeed, Peggy must play the innocent as his cheerful and charming young wife.”
Source: Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
“If arrogance is a criteria for righteousness, If Boasting is the reservoir for Power, if self-confident is the test of a sincere heart, Peter would need no repentance”
“If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.”
Source: Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet
“If arrogance were transformed into rope, Natassa could have strangled him with it a thousand times.”
Source: The Cavalier
“If Arsenal don't finish third, they might not finish in third place.”
“If Arsenal played like this all the time they could win the league”
“If art can be likened to a river, then Edinburgh is a confluence where many tributaries meet.”
Source: Modern Masters XVIII
“If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.”
“If art didn't tell the truth, politicians would hire painters, not lawyers!”
“If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.”
“If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
“If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.”
“If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.”
Source: Adventures of a Biographer
“If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!”
Source: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
“If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.”
“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'?”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?”
“If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)”
“If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.”
“If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an enriching, ennobling and vital partner in the public pursuit of civilization. It should be a majestic presence in everyday life just as it was in the past.”
“If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”
“If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.”
Source: Paintings and drawings
“If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.”
“If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.”
“If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.”
“If art's a seismographic project, when that project’s met with miscomprehension, failure must become the subject too.”
Source: I Love Dick
“If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.”
“If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.”
Source: Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
“If artificial intelligence is as transformative as its proponents believe, we should be viewing its development and use not through the lens of individual adoption but as a matter of public importance.”
Source: More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
“If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?”
“If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.”
“If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.”
“If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.”
“If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to those fans and bring the best music, shows and interaction that they can. This is something that won't change with technology or economy.”
“If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.”
“If, as a companion, you just try not to be harmful, if you are not helpful either, you might still be harmful.”
“If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger”
“If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.”
Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation
“If as a voter you think what we need is more Republicans in Washington to cut a deal with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, then I guess Donald Trump`s your guy.”
“If as adults we have even a measure of mental health, it is almost certainly because, when we were helpless infants, there was a person (to whom we essentially owe our lives) who pushed their needs to one side for a time in order to focus wholly on ours. They interpreted what we could not quite say, they guessed what might be ailing us, they settled and consoled us. They keyp the chaos and noise at bay and cut the world up into manageable pieces for us.”
“If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.”
“If as an artist, you’re ever sure about your skills at any given moment, you’re either doing the wrong thing… or you’re doing the thing wrong”
“If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.”
“If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?”
Source: Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during World War I.]”