"My art and profession is to live."
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"I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear."
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"Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work."
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"To know how to live is my trade and my art."
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"Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?"
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"Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them."
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"If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature."
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"A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds."
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"Fashion is not just about what we wear, but...fashion is also a business. It is an art, it's a career that involves science, engineering, accounting and so much more. People can learn about the math behind Charles James' designs, and think, 'Maybe I should pay closer attention to geometry this semester'"
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"What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design."
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"The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt."
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"If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?"
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"You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life."
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"Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward."
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"Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art."
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"We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive."
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"When life sucks, throw yourself into art."
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"Art movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil. We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. I also think that it gives artists something, a way of kind of processing. My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world. Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, "Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn't there that can reach other folks and help them to process"?"
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"We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art."
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"Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed."
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