"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."
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"Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee; Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And wear'st the gentle name of Spring."
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"To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational."
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"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . ."
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"I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore."
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"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."
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"Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord."
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"But only art and music have the power to bring peace."
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"Drawing is the honesty of the art."
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"Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad."
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"No painting is more replete than Mondrian's."
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"There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day."
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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
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"Artists must be sacrificed to their art."
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"The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech."
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"But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time."
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"Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
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"To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination."
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"We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still."
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