True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest. Asger Jorn
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future. Gilberto Gil
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival. Harold Innis
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God. Thomas Aquinas
A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information. Henry Fountain Ashurst
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. Walter Savage Landor