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Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

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I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

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Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.

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Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Art Quotes , Creativity Quotes

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Art Quotes , Long Quotes

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

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If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.

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The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life Quotes , Art Quotes

Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Art Quotes , Block Quotes

I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.

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The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

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Tags : A. S. Byatt Quotes , Art Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been preparing for half a year. I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there - any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog. I'm just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.

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The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

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