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Michel de Montaigne

"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."

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"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."

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Amber Hurdle

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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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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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

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"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

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"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

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"I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."

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"Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got."

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"D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action."
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"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."
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"I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind."
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"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."
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"We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life."
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"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."
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"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."
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"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
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