"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know."

Art, Originality

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"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know."

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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

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Art, History

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

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Art, Husband, Job

"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

Art, Poetry, Love, Emotion, Expression

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

Art, Truth

"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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"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."

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"One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions."

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"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

Learning

"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."

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"True creativity often starts where language ends."

Creativity

"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."

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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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"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."

"One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions."

"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."

"True creativity often starts where language ends."

"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."

"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."

"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity."