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For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
A Room of One's Own
Art teaches nothing except the significance of life.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
The Architecture of Happiness
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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