“If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.” IfsFirstsArtistSawsDutyFunctionCritics Author:J. E. H. MacDonald
“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.” FeelsMeanHas BeensArtStillsPastAliveModernDutyArt IsFunctionCommunicateLiberated Author:Antony Gormley
“The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.” WorldWayShowsArtistDarkDutyProductsBirthFunctionShakesPillarsAncestryComplacentSleepers Author:Norman Bethune
“Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.” ShouldStatesJusticeDutyFunctionPrimariesJealousExtensionsMaintainingPeace And JusticeVigilanceMaintaining Peace Author:Ludwig von Mises
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.” HumansChildrenGrowthHuman BeingsQualityHonestGreatnessDutyDevelopmentOrganizationFunctionUrgesMartial ArtsSincereExpansionHuman DevelopmentHuman PotentialMartial Arts InspirationalPersonal Growth And DevelopmentBeing SincereDevelopment And GrowthFuture Growth Author:Bruce Lee
“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962” NeedsHumansHas BeensLiteratureGamesChurchCitiesResponsibilityChangedDutyGrewNeededSpeechDespairSingingLowsEmptyFunctionSpeciesCriticalHallsPaleExclusiveNobelDecemberCaloriesPriesthoodHuman NeedsBanquetsBardsStockholmCity Hall Book:A Life in Letters Source: A Life in Letters