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In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

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When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.

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There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.

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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

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Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

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In the armies and among every ten men there is one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his courage, with words and by example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.

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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

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There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

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But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.

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Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

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Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

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