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Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts
The object of art is to give life a shape
The history of art is the history of revivals
Art needs no spur beyond itself
He that sips of many arts drinks of none
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth
Art is the daughter of freedom
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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."
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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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