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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
John Updike

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
John Updike

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Henry Ellis

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Henry Ellis

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig van Beethoven

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller


Art is the objectification of feeling.
Herman Melville

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Michelangelo

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
Robert Mondavi

We want to raise the art of living well.
Robert Mondavi

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore De Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac

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