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It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
The Architecture of Happiness
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years
Art is never finished, only abandoned
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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