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David Elliott

"Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art."

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"Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art."

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

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"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."

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"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."

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"Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art."
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