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" The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. "
Marcus Aurelius
Dancing
Art
Wrestling
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" Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. "
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" An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. "
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" I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life. "
Ron Hall
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" Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. "
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" As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. "
Darren Criss
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" Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. "
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" To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art. "
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" You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. "
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Teach
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" But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. "
Frank Stella
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Live
" That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. "
Marcus Aurelius
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" Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. "
F. Sionil Jose
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" I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it. "
Margaret Keane
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Doing
" I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. "
Khalil Gibran
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Silence
" So vast is art, so narrow human wit. "
Alexander Pope
Wit
Narrow
Art
" Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. "
Theodore Dreiser
Soul
Human
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" When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? "
Oliver Goldsmith
Too Late
Art
Woman
" The act of dying is one of the acts of life. "
Marcus Aurelius
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Life
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" Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. "
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" The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing. "
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Internet
" 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
Habit
Excellence
Virtue
" I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' "
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wish
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" When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. "
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Need
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" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. "
Michel Foucault
Become
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Me
" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "
Pablo Picasso
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Soul
" All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker. "
David Bowie
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" I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really. "
A. R. Rahman
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" Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? "
James Montgomery
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Flower
" Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. "
Salvador Dali
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Minute
" With an apple I will astonish Paris. "
Paul Cezanne
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