"For essential beauty is infinite, and, as the soul of Nature needs an endless succession of varied forms to embody her loveliness, countless faces of beauty springing forth, not any two the same, at every one of her heart-throbs, so the individual form needs an infinite change of its environments, to enable it to uncover all the phases of its loveliness."

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"For essential beauty is infinite, and, as the soul of Nature needs an endless succession of varied forms to embody her loveliness, countless faces of beauty springing forth, not any two the same, at every one of her heart-throbs, so the individual form needs an infinite change of its environments, to enable it to uncover all the phases of its loveliness."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."

"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

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"I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

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"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."

"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."

"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down."

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"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

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