"A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it."
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"When you create art, the world has to wait."
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"It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science."
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"Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling."
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"As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
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"It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process."
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"The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes."
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"Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not."
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"Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime..."
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"O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!"
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"In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life."
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"Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt."
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"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!"
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"Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature."
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"Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense."
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"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
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"I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality."
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"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."
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"You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life"
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"A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors to new experiences. When he is unafraid of new ideas, new theories and new philosophies. When he has the curiosity to experiment. When he breaks the chain of routine."
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