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"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"I see my life in terms of music."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."
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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."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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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?'"
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"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."
Time

"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."
Society

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."
People

"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."
Nature

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."
Vision

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
Friendship

"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it."
War

"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."
Experience

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Crisis

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
Politics
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