Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Art Quotes, Ideas Quotes

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

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Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

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Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art.

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There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

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

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It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

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In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

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Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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