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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters
Give me a museum and I'll fill it
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced
We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten
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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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