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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Art

"All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous."

Men Believe Art
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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
Art

"Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere."

Art Inspiration Faith
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Boris Pasternak Poet, Novelist
Art

"A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime."

Art Moving Reading
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Bowie Kuhn Baseball Commissioner
Art

"Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity."

Art Beautiful Baseball
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Brigham Young Religious Leader
Art

"Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints."

Art Music Accomplishment
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Brother Lawrence Monk, Cook
Art

"O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i beseech thee to grant me the grace to continue in thy presence; and to this end do thou prosper me with thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections." (Bro. Lawrence implored His grace and offered to Him all his actions)."

Art Mind Grace
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Art

"You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries."

Thinking Art Mistake
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Art

"And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from."

Art Differences Fate
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Art

"There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it."

Art Ends Insight
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Albert Einstein Physicist
Art

"I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life."

Art Life Powerful
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Albert Einstein Physicist
Art

"What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition."

Art Mind Wish
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Albert Einstein Physicist
Art

"Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?"

Art Life May
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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
Art

"Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us."

Art Order Letting Go
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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
Art

"Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect; there's no hiccoughing or bad breath, no fatigue or boredom, no sudden recollections of unpaid bills or business letters unanswered, to interrupt the raptures. Art gives you the sensation, the thought, the feeling quite pure--chemically pure, I mean,... not morally."

Art Real Girl
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Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist
Art

"Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse."

Art Horse Wind
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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Art

"Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art."

Art Country War
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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Art

"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

Art Giving Magic
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