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“Necessity is the spur of the fine arts.”
Theocritus
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“Take heart; perhaps tomorrow will be better.”
Theocritus
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“With torn and bleeding hearts we smile.”
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“Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?”
Aeschylus
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“One of the penalties for refusing to take part in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Plato
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Life is short, art is long, opportunity is fleeting, experience misleading
the judgment difficult.
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Hippocrates
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“Art is not a mirror which reflects the world, but a hammer with which we give it shape.”
Mayakovsky
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“To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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Baudelaire
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Plath Sylvia
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“A leading artist of the Italian Renaissance.”
Titian
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“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius
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“Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth in 200 b.C.”
Eratosthenes
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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
Frank Anne
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“You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.”
Kallas Maria
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“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings”
Mandela Nelson
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“When you stop growing you start dying.”
Burroughs W.
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“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
Dali Salvador
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“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
Akhmatova
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“You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.”
Mistral Gabriela
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
Eliot Thomas
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“Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.”
Braque Georges
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“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Picasso Pablo
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“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.”
Kandinsky Wassily
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“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Freud Sigmund
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“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.”
Gauguin
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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
Zola Emile
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“Fine art is knowledge made visible.”
Courbet Gustave
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“All art is erotic.”
Klimt Gustav
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“Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.”
Boccaccio
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“The glory of mighty men is given one quarter by their boldness, two quarters by luck and a quarter by their crimes.”
Foscolo,