"Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it."
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"When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art."
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"For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on."
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"Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . ."
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"Look within, thou art the Buddha."
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"Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical."
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"Art is man added to Nature."
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"I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself."
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"You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you."
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"Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all."
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"I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness."
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"Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows."
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"It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it."
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"Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men."
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"Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead."
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"This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part."
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"Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what is done for the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms, and nothing else than a mixture and dispersion. Why, then, art thou disturbed? Say to this ruling faculty, Art thou dead, art thou corrupted, art thou playing the hypocrite, art thou become a beast, dost thou herd and feed with the rest?"
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"There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it."
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"The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form."
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"Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth."
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