"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."

Art, People, Investment

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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

Art, Play, Success, Audience, 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."

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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"My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg."

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"God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender."

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"The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies."

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"It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself."

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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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"My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg."

"God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender."

"The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies."

"I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money."

"Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new."

"My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country."

"Accomplish something every day of your life."

"Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound."

"Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round."

"It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself."