"If the art is concealed, it succeeds."
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"By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows."
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"From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance."
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"Art is most effective when concealed."
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"It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem"
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"Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art."
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"The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures."
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"Art lies in concealing art."
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"To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct."
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"It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist."
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"Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art."
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"The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins."
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"The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature."
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"In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic."
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"Massage therapists, and others in the holistic arts ... seem to be a particularly gullible bunch. And there are a lot of people who have seized upon that, and marketed their products, their classes, their modalities, and their wild claims to us ... and many of us have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker ... and unfortunately, gone on to convince our clients to buy into it, as well. ... Our profession has turned into the snake oil medicine show."
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"The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems."
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"The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art."
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"Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence."
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"Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world."
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"I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art."
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