Quotes About Acceptance

Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

Pain, thou art not an evil

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.