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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.


Florence Nightingale


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The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.


Pauline Kael


#conventionality #quality #repetitiveness #standards #art

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.


Francis Parkman


#back #brought #conventionality #elements #fabric

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.


George Weinberg


#conventionality #every #every night #illness #night

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.


W.H. Auden


#conventionality #taste #art

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.


Anthon St. Maarten


#conformity #conventionality #creation #diversity #expansion

Conventionality is not morality.


Charlotte Bronte


#morality






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