Famous quotes containing the words polish, contribution, world and/or war:
“Use the stones of another hill to polish your own jade.”
—Chinese proverb.
“All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
“The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.”
—Howard Dietz (1896–1983)
“Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)