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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

– William FaulknerRate it:

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

– Auguste RodinRate it:

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

– Franois Auguste Ren RodinRate it:

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

– Elbert HubbardRate it:

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

– Leonardo da VinciRate it:

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

– Jacob Getlar SmithRate it:

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

– Eugène DelacroixRate it:

The artist's signature shows the whole story on a white canvas.”

– Wesley D'Amico Rate it:

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

– BerensonRate it:

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

– Hendrik Willem Van LoonRate it:

The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.

– June WayneRate it:

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

– SenecaRate it:

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.

– Henry ClayRate it:

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

– Lucius Annaeus SenecaRate it:

The ass and his driver do not think alike.

– ProverbRate it:

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.

– Miguel de CervantesRate it:

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

– Charles Robert DarwinRate it:

The atheist has got completely different views from the theist, but each one of them is regarding their opponent as the foolish one.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

The athlete who comes last in a race, is not a looser. Maybe all she/he aimed for, was to reach the finish line!

– PSBRate it:

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

– UnknownRate it:

The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.

– William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 2Rate it:

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

– Karl PopperRate it:

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

– Joseph SobranRate it:

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