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"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear."
"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
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"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
"The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark."
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
"Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man."
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