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“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Pablo Picasso
“Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius”
Marshall Cook
“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.”
Joseph Campbell
“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous”
Yehudi Menuhin
“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.”
T.S. Eliot
“God...sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted”
William Hazlitt
“The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.”
G. K. Chesterton
