"Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism."
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"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for."
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"Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time."
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"Wherever You Are, Be There One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being."
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"There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it."
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"Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced."
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"The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work."
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"Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends."
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"In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed."
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"All great art is a form of complaint"
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"Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period."
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"Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline."
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"The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time."
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"Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject."
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"I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics."
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"The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed."
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"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."
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"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art."
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"To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal."
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"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."
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