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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

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The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

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Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

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You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.

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Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

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Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

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The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

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To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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