Newness Quotes - Page 4

• Art keeps its newness because it's at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to hold on to. It's more chemical reaction, one you have to re-create each time, than a substance. Art's discoveries are also, almost always, counter to ordinary truths.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Discovery, Ordinary

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

  Virgil

  Kingdoms, Harsh, Force

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• Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Fashion, Elements

  "Tom Ford: a single man and his address book" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2010.

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• I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Australia, Perfection

  1922 Letter, 28 May.

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• The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Art, America, Issues

  "Our Mission Statement" by William F. Buckley Jr., www.nationalreview.com. November 19, 1955.

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• From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Echoes, People, Poetry

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.169, University of Michigan Press

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• Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

  Vernon Lee

  Civilization, Barbarians, Use

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”

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• It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Unique, Civilization, Creating

  Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

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• But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

  Agnes Smedley

  Adventure, Color, Enemy

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

  Agnes Repplier

  Innovation, Committed, Illuminating

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Growth

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque forms and events -- in terms of the import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Tangled, Grace

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• The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead Lazarus, so he says to you and me: “come forth.” Come forth from the despair of doubt. Come forth from the sorrow of sin. Come forth from the death of disbelief. Come forth to a newness of life. Come forth.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Men, Doubt, Sorrow

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• As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.

  Ernest Holmes

  Eternity, Newness Of Life, Changed

  Ernest Holmes (2006). “The Hidden Power of the Bible”, p.158, Penguin

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• I have come to see the real clash of the ages, involve wars and various historical circumstances, as being a clash of satan' s versus God's plan for man to learn and experience true liberty, by first receiving forgiveness of sins through the work of Christ on the cross, and then walking in the 'newness of life.

  Richard S. Wheeler

  Real, War, Men

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• So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

  Dan Buettner

  Years, Nine, Lasts

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• People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That destroys their freshness. Do things in your own style; live your life according to your own light. And even if the same situation arises, be alert to find a new response. It is only a question of a little alertness, and once you have started enjoying... and it is really a great joy to respond to old situations always in a new way, because that newness keeps you young, keeps you conscious, keeps you non-mechanical, keeps you alive.

  Rajneesh

  Light, People, Joy

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• A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Believe, People

  "Remembering Louise Wilson OBE". Interview with Donatien Grau, origin.anothermag.com. January 2013.

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• I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Art, Causes, Emotion

  "Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2012.

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• When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because the books have this wonder in everyday things that isn't bogged down by excessively grown-up concerns or the need to be subtle or coy... when you read these books as an adult, it tends to bring back the sense of newness and discovery that I tend not to get from adult fiction.

  Jesse Sheidlower

  Book, Discovery, Everyday Things

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• Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are. Any number of arbitrarily small perturbations along the way could have made the world as we know it turn out very differently.

  Paul Romer

  Wisdom, Numbers, Special

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• Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

  Stewart Brand

  Fashion, Drama, Technology

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• I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

  Allan Stratton

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Children, World, Sake

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• Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be frustrated, because soon the fun is gone, the newness is gone, and boredom sets in. Marriage is for deep friendship, deep intimacy. Love is implied in it, but it is not alone. So marriage is spiritual. It is spiritual. There are many things which you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond, someone so intimate that you can open yourself totally to him or her.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Spiritual, Fun

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