Famous quotes containing the words true and/or american:
“But true love is a durable fire
In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?1618)
“One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless.... They have put into practise the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.”
—Harold Rosenberg (19061978)