“Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.”
Washington Allston
“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”
Albert Einstein
“At least 10 separate, distinct times where his head was struck with an object or against an object.”
Jay Plotkin
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; and to it therefore, to the condition of its perf”
Walter H. Pater
“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.”
William Blake
“To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely”
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
Walter Benjamin