"The perfection of art is to conceal art."

Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Roman Philosopher

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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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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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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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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Art, Being, Modernity

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

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Music, Experience, Truth, Life

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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

"History develops, art stands still."

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

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."

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"Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite."

"To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man."

"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."

"While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost."

"Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake."

"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."