Honore De Balzac Quotes, Art Quotes, Perfection Quotes

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

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The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

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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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Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

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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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The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

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The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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