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 conventionspastart All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. Sri Aurobindo conventionsattachmentdesire It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention. Steve Vai unconventionalconventionsmusician Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. Stewart Brand conventionsart The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. Tama J. Kieves astonishmentconventionsworship Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. Teresa Nielsen Hayden conventionsplotstories A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie. Thornton Wilder falsehoodconventionslying [The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods. Thomas Jefferson demigodsassemblyconventions The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention. Ugo Betti conventionssincerityspontaneity 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 entityconventionslaw No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention. W. Somerset Maugham conventionsaction Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination. Walter Darby Bannard conventionsreleaseimagination For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself. Wanda Koop conventionslooksinteresting 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 mailboxesconventionshouse This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention. Wilhelm Keitel conventionsagreementwar Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life. Will Rogers conventionstryingway What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it. Yoweri Museveni conventionsgenevawar When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions. Robert Krulwich lovedconventionsteenagerpolitical Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. Peter Brimelow evenconventionspublishersbother Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun shocksconventionstomorrowtoday«123456»
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