"Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art."

Art, Nature, Power, Measure

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"Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art."

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"Music awaken our soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Awaken, Soul, Spirit

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Music gives life to the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language."

Aberjhani, American Historian

Art, Dream, Creativity, Expression, Energy

"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

"I see my life in terms of music."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Art, Life, Music, Perception, Emotion

"Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Art, Writing, Perception, Expression, Emotion

"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again."

Ben Hogan, American Athlete

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"So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower."

Growth, Plants, Will, Wishes

"These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes."

Gardening, Gardens, May

"This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle."

May, Water

"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."

Importance, Plants, Trees

"The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon."

Feet,

"The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature."

Appearance, Feet

"The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens."

Gardening, Gardens, Houses, Plants

"A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine."

Variety,

"Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good."

Purpose, Eyes, Tongue

"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."

Houses, Nothing, Quantity, Windows