"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

Art, Appearance

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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"I see my life in terms of music."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'"

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence."

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"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."

Friendship, Friend, Youth, Elderly, Support

"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"

Economy, Wealth, Famine, Irony, Abundance

"Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state."

Politics, Democracy, Virtue, Government, Ruin

"The physician heals Nature makes well."

Healing, Nature, Wellness, Health

"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

Criticism, Inaction, Nothing, Silence

"Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims."

Philosophy, Action, Choice, Inquiry, Skill

"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."

Desire, Life, Human, Needs

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

Freedom, Fear, Overcoming, Strength

"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."

Success, Excellence, Intention, Effort, Choice