Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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A bad cause requires many words. ~German Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
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