Quotes About Repetition In Art

#1. Drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal
round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,
within I am awake
repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread
forced by being to watch the birth of suns

Frank Bidart

#2. The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Freya Stark

#3. Motivational speaking is the art of telling people what they have been told before ... without them noticing.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual.

Rupert Sheldrake

#5. For poetry and I are one
To separate is to decapitate
For my poetry is forever.

Kerry D. Brackett

#6. Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#7. Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

#8. I'm used to being the main goal scorer, but I also always like to help.

Luis Suarez

#9. I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.

Rick Scott

#10. If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see
what makes the human heart happy?
Is it art or is it sex?
Or is it, as I suspect, just keeping going
from next thing to next thing
to next thing to next thing
to next to next to next to next
pulsating stupidly to outlast time?

Dan Chiasson

#11. He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from her.

Don DeLillo

#12. I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?

Adam Ross

#13. Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence ... are undermined.

Douglas Crimp

#14. Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.

Amit Ray

#15. I believe firmly in God's control in life.

Charles R. Swindoll

#16. Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.

Oscar Wilde

#17. [Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Richard Armour

#18. Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do.
We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.

Seth Godin

#19. A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.

John Keats