Confucius Quotes, Art Quotes, Kindness Quotes

The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

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The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

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I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

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I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

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He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.

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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

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

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Do not press an enemy at bay.

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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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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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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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