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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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"Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
People

"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."
Faith

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
God

"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."
Self

"We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about."
Knowledge

"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."
History

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
Talent

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
Habit

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
Evil

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
Thought
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