"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

Art, Beauty

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"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

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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

Art, Science, Creation

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"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

Art, Truth, Critics, Authors

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Art, History

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

Steven Redhead, British Author

Art, Life, Time, Creation

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

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Art, Husband, Job

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Art, Happiness, Philosophy, Values

"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

Art, Poetry, Love, Emotion, Expression

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Poetry, Perception, Vision

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Art, Man, Medicine, Sickness

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"Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience."

Change

"What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career."

Business

"During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures."

Friendship

"There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension."

Control

"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."

Love

"Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock."

Control

"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."

Marriage

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

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

"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."

"History develops, art stands still."

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

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

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

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

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

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"Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience."

"What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career."

"A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."

"I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue."

"Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s."

"During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures."

"There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension."

"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."

"Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock."

"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."