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Oliver Herford

"Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."

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"Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."

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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"

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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

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"Music communicates with the soul."

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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

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"Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you."
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"A man is known by the silence he keeps."
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"What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan."
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"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."
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"Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember."
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"Age, like distance lends a double charm."
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