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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.

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"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

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As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

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In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

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Discontent is the seed of ethics.

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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

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The motion picture is the people's Art.

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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

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The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.

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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

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In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

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I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

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She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.

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