Frederic Bastiat - Best Quotes

And what is liberty whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties – liberty of conscience of education of association of the press of travel or labor or trade?

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Author: Frederic Bastiat

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including of course legal despotism?

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

In short is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

And what is liberty whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties – liberty of conscience of education of association of the press of travel or labor or trade?