"Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."
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"It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing."
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"In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art."
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"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
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"True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide."
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"So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind, And whom today the Spring no more concerns. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame; This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them, Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem The white cup shrivels round the golden heart."
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"For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline."
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation."
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"Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude."
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
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"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
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"Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind."
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"Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much."
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"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land."
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"I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life."
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"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."
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"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
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"Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will."
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"Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world."
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"Art is born out of an ill-designed world."
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