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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.

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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

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We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

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Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

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