"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."

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"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Art, Science, Creation

"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

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Truth, Critics, Authors

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Art, History

"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Art, Life, Time, Creation

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

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Art, Husband, Job

"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Art, Happiness, Philosophy, Values

"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

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Poetry, Perception, Vision

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Art, Man, Medicine, Sickness

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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."

Beauty

"I am still learning."

Learning

"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."

Thought

"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."

Art

"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."

Soul

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"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."

"History develops, art stands still."

"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

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

"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."

"I am still learning."

"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."

"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."

"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."

"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."