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"All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it."
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"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
"And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello."
"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."
"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."
"He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands."
"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."
"I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career."
"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
"Cookery means, English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness."
"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."
"The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure."
"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
"No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds."
"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
"To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge is good, and light is good: yet man perished in seeking knowledge, and moths perish in seeking light; and if we, who are crushed before the moth, will not accept such mystery as is needful to us, we shall perish in like manner."
"And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond, which bows itself, and will forever bow, before the myrtle crown, and the stainless scepter of womanhood."
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