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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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