The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-pencilling the bad spelling of God.
Quotes about impassioned (16 Quotes)
Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
At that point, I was impassioned about abolishing the tipping system because I felt it created a false servant-master relationship between servers and guests at the restaurant, ... would just make the staff member feel really horrible, as if they had done something wrong.
Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought;
Nor voice, nor sound betrays
Its deep, impassioned gaze.
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Frank Ford joined the impassioned campaign for Keane, who fought off a challenge from Graeme Souness (now there's an image). As ever, Hansen picks a team based upon sound opinion and good football sense, ... He played with Souness, who was great and as hard as nails, but I have to say that to leave Keane out of any team is one hell of a call.
Fred Goldman is known all over the world as an impassioned voice for all victims of crime, especially violent crime, ... Who better to serve as this office's special representative on behalf of Arizona victims
I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
I applaud Mike on the spirited campaign he built and his contributions to his community as a committed and dedicated legislator and attorney. I hope Mike will continue to apply his talents, in ably and effectively representing his district as an impassioned voice for the communities of Melrose and Wakefield.
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned ... than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting.
And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.