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Quotes About World

Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.
~ Unknown
He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.
~ H.G. Wells
The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.
~ Paul Klee
The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.
~ Osbert Sitwell
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.
~ David Thewlis
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
~ Charlie Haden
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
~ Sam Taylor-Wood
Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The fight against Jewish world Bolshevization requires a clear attitude toward Soviet Russia. You cannot drive out the Devil with Beelzebub.
~ Adolf Hitler
Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude.
~ Earl Nightingale
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
~ Hans Hofmann
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.
~ Yasumasa Morimura
Declaring that climate is Europe's "most pressing challenge," Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has pledged to turn all of Europe into "the first carbon neutral continent in the world.
~ Daniel Yergin
For many decades after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union had been closed off, an almost forbidden place, another world. The Soviet oil industry operated largely in isolation, with little of the flow of technology and equipment that was common in the rest of the world.
~ Daniel Yergin
Whoever saves one life, saves a world entire." —Talmud
~ Danielle Steel
I am afraid of other things, of a world that allows a travesty to exist like the one we just lived, where brother betrays brother and nothing is safe or true or right. We allowed that to happen. We gave our country away. We allowed evil to exist and to prosper.
~ Danielle Steel
What one finds in Jewish storytelling, though, is something really different: a kind of realism that comes from humility, from the knowledge that one cannot be true to the human experience while pretending to make sense of the world.
~ Dara Horn
No, the great thing about selfie sticks is that they send annoying people out into the world with a built-in means with which to thrash them. -Bucky Katt
~ Darby Conley
Ignorance can explain at best a small part of world inequality.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Those of Nogales, Sonora, are not so lucky. They live in a different world shaped by different institutions. These different institutions create very disparate incentives for the inhabitants of the two Nogaleses and for the entrepreneurs and businesses willing to invest there. These incentives created by the different institutions of the Nogaleses and the countries in which they are situated are the main reason for the differences in economic prosperity on the two sides of the border.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu