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“To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.”

Has Beens Art Ideas Able Culture Aim Appearance My Time Customs Translate

Author:Gustave Courbet

“In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.”

School Culture Education Ought Intellectual Aim Institutions Profound Academic Emphasis Schooling

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.”

Knows Art Today Culture Produce Skills Mass Aim Consuming Moron Mass Culture

Author:Matthew Collings

“We are a cut-and-paste culture. The aim of the protectionists is to argue that a cut-and-paste culture is criminal. Well, it's only criminal if there's nothing out there that you can freely cut and paste. If we increasingly mark material as available for these non-commercial uses, then people will have the opportunity to see its importance.”

People Ifs Wells Use Culture Opportunity Cutting Materials Importance Mark Aim Available Criminals Arguing

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Always aim for 100 percent and you'll always know where to improve.”

Knows Culture Percent Aim Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.”

Looks Lasts Faces Culture Next Difficult Impossible Generations Difficulty Aim Lays Arise Coats Jamaica Specifications African Culture

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.”

Men Ends Self Reason Age Culture Progress Century Men And Women Ideals Aim Sympathy Globes Philanthropy Age Of Reason Ideal Man

Author:Frances E. Willard

“A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.”

People Humans Reality Culture Process Rights Standards Aim Human Rights Setting Settings Evolve Abstract Living Reality

Author:Mary Robinson

“The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.”

People Shows Problem Culture Goal Talent Development Aim Productions Proportion Great Work

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.”

Should Humans Two Soul Culture Perfect Development Female Aim Faculty Imperfect Womanhood Human Soul Perfect Woman Female Education

Book:A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader