Quotes by Conventions One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past. Sol LeWitt conventions past art All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. Sri Aurobindo conventions attachment desire It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention. Steve Vai unconventional conventions musician Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. Stewart Brand conventions art The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. Tama J. Kieves astonishment conventions worship Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. Teresa Nielsen Hayden conventions plot stories A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie. Thornton Wilder falsehood conventions lying [The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods. Thomas Jefferson demigods assembly conventions The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention. Ugo Betti conventions sincerity spontaneity The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial. Victor Turner entity conventions law No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention. W. Somerset Maugham conventions action Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination. Walter Darby Bannard conventions release imagination For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself. Wanda Koop conventions looks interesting One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox. Wendell Berry mailboxes conventions house This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention. Wilhelm Keitel conventions agreement war Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life. Will Rogers conventions trying way What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it. Yoweri Museveni conventions geneva war When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions. Robert Krulwich loved conventions teenager political Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. Peter Brimelow even conventions publishers bother Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun shocks conventions tomorrow today «123456»
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