In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
Louis Mumford

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Paul Cezanne

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia Woolf

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.
Josiah Strong

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Jackson Pollock

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
Pierre Bayle

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
Robert Delaunay

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
Lee Konitz

It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.
Stephan Jenkins

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
Herman Hesse

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
Richard Linklater

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
Zakk Wylde

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
Edward Hopper

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Simone Weil

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
William S. Burroughs

Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
George Villiers

Man as a pure animal does not exist.
Francis Parker Yockey

May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
J. Reuben Clark