Quotes with ceremonial

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• Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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• The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• revivification
• completeness
• description
• ceremonies
• criticism
• pedestal

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