"Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient."
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"The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology."
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"There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small."
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"The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care."
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"What matters in art is not thinking but making."
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"Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art."
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"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
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"No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it."
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"To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft."
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"A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly."
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"For the nature of women is closely allied to art"
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"The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon."
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"Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten."
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"The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account."
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"Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion."
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"Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy."
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"The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment."
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"Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of science has all the science before him to go upon, to set himself up in business with. What an enormous sum Darwin availed himself of and reinvested! Not so in literature; to every poet, to every artist, it is still the first day of creation, so far as the essentials of his task are concerned. Literature is not so much a fund to be reinvested as it is a crop to be ever new-grown."
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"The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences."
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"Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?"
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