“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.” ArtInspirationPastArtistIndividualResultsEducationStudyTalentTaughtArt IsTraditionDeny Author:Gustave Courbet
“One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.” PeopleWritingDifferentWould BePastCertainChurchCenturyUnityDenyCatholicismIdenticalPresent Day Author:Thomas Aquinas
“The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.” TryingPastBlackBreakRevolutionDenyAcceptedIndianHeritageMexicoMexicanOver The PastMexican Revolution Author:Carlos Fuentes
“A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.” KnowsMenPastBlindOneselfRefuseDenyMuteHandicapped Author:Tobsha Learner
“I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.” TryingBelieveHumansPastEvidenceDareDenyContraryEditors Book:Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things