To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Joseph Beuys

Quoted in Artforum

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Topic

Teaching Art

Speaker

Joseph Beuys

Source

Artforum

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

German

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Artist

From

Germany Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Beuys, Joseph. "An Interview with Joseph Beuys." Interviewed by Willoughby Sharp. Artforum, Dec. 1969.

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No society, certainly not a large and heterogenous one, can fail in time to explode if it is deprived of the arts of compromise, if it knows no ways of muddling through. No good society can be unprincipled; and no viable society can be principle-ridden.

Alexander M. Bickel

The Least Dangerous Branch

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Topic
Political compromise

Author

Alexander M. Bickel
Source
The Least Dangerous Branch
Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Bickel, Alexander M. The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics. The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1962, ch. 2.

Another quote about Art

In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

Alberto Giacometti

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Topic
Value of life Hypothetical situations Relative value Cats Art
Speaker
Alberto Giacometti
Genre
Biography
Language
Unclear
Time
20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Lord, James. Giacometti: A Biography. Macmillan, 1997, ch. 44.

Another quote originally in German

Who strives always to the utmost,
For him there is salvation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Topic
Going for it Doing one's best

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source
Faust
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play) Tragedy
Language
German
Time
1808 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil [Faust. The Tragedy's Second Part]. 1832, act 5.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust: Part Two, translated by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 5.