"Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest."
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"In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal."
"Art demands constant observation."
"Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?"
"Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton."
"The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions."
"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works."
"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."
"Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation."
"The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters."
"We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art."
"Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it."
"The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea."
"We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth."
"So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all."
"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."
"Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me."
"There is no science without fancy and no art without fact."