"Art persists, it timelessly continues."
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"Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life."
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"In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune."
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"Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it."
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"A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art."
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"At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition."
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"By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings."
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"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for."
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"Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering."
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"Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own."
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"To make living itself an art, that is the goal."
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"Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory."
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"We possess art lest we perish of the truth."
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"For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not."
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"It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult. He is contemptible in that his judgments reflect a vision of himself which in his ignorance and pride he would impose upon the world. I implore you, do not become a moralist; you will destroy your art and your mind."
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"I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources."
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"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."
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"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite."
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"Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life."
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"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one."
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