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Knowledge is the only elegance.

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Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

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Thou art to me a delicious torment.

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

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When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

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The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

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O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

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Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

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The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

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I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

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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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