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A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

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The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections - not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences.

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

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I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

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If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

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Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

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To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

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Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

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True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

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What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

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The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

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