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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
Faith begins where religious pretension ends
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.
Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
My family is vital to me - just the sense of being surrounded by no pretension.
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
The Tories have long since abdicated any pretension of principled global leadership.
I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.
Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul.
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.
Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
Look, I was a water carrier, I don't reject my image. I didn't have the pretension to think that I could change a match by myself.
Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.
When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.
I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.
There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something extraordinary for the community, then you have to suffer.
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.
Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'
Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state if you hunted from Jonesboro to El Dorado.
I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic' - just this catch-all term to distance people from interesting experiences and cultural engagement and possible embarrassment.
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.
With Fincher, you can take chances and try things. And what happens is that any pretension and preparation you've done, all the square, intellectual work, you can't keep that up for 40 takes. It breaks down, and new things start popping up. This, for me, is the most exciting thing about film-making.
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.
