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“The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.”
Aristippus
“I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...”
Vincent van Gogh
“We have art to save ourselves from the truth.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
Oscar Wilde
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.”
“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
G. K. Chesterton
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
“To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”
Kahlil Gibran
