World Quotes

The forms of art are inexhaustible but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

~ Clive Bell

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

~ Robert Owen

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

~ Kanye West

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

~ Art Blakey

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

~ Peter Hammill

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

~ Rudyard Kipling

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

~ Ellen Key

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

~ Jeff Koons

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

~ Amy Lowell

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

~ Carl Andre

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

~ Hendrik Willem Van Loon

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

~ Angela Davis

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

~ Anna Lindh

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

~ Charles Bukowski

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

~ Billy Hughes

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

~ Dennis Kucinich

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

~ Seth Godin

When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

~ Trevor Noah

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.

~ Michael Ignatieff

Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.

~ Asghar Farhadi

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

~ Stephen King

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

~ Edgar Mitchell

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

~ Martin L. Gross

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

~ Jose Mujica

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

~ Russell Baker

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

~ Shinzo Abe

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

~ Belle Boyd

Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.

~ Michael Cimino

Jesus is the politics of the new age He is about the establishment of a kingdom He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world.

~ Stanley Hauerwas

'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

~ G. Willow Wilson

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

~ Jane Goodall

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

~ Mario Cuomo

The world is governed by opinion.

~ William Ellery Channing

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

~ Hassan Rouhani

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

~ N. T. Wright

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

~ Jeane Kirkpatrick