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"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
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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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"I see my life in terms of music."
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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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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."
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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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"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."
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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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"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
Change
"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
Soul
"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."
Beauty
"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."
Past
"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
Work
"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
Art
"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
Art
"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
Beauty
"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
Travel
"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
Fear
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