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" Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Experience
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" Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. "
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" Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. "
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" Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "
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" Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. "
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" No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "
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" With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. "
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" The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. "
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" To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. "
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Human
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" I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. "
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" 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. "
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