To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Joseph Beuys

Quoted in Artforum

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Topic

Teaching Art

Speaker

Joseph Beuys

Source

Artforum

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

German

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Artist

From

Germany Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Beuys, Joseph. "An Interview with Joseph Beuys." Interviewed by Willoughby Sharp. Artforum, Dec. 1969.

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It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.

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Topic
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Walter Cronkite
Medium
TV program
Language
English
Time
1968 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Cronkite, Walter. "We are Mired in Stalemate." CBS Evening News, created by Don Hewitt, CBS News Productions, 27 Feb. 1968.

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In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

Alberto Giacometti

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Topic
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Speaker
Alberto Giacometti
Genre
Biography
Language
Unclear
Time
20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Lord, James. Giacometti: A Biography. Macmillan, 1997, ch. 44.

Another quote originally in German

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Topic
Charting one's own path

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Advice
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1885, pt. 4.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 4.