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Art - Literature| Return to Index | | Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
| | A. E. Housman,
1859-1936, English,
Poet |
| Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
| | A. E. Housman,
1859-1936, English,
Poet |
| Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
| | Adela Florence Nicolson,
1865-1904, English,
Poet |
| Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
| | Adrian Mitchell,
1932-, British,
Poet |
| Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
| | Albert Bandura,
1925-, Canadian,
Psychologist |
| Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
| | Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, German American,
Physicist |
| Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
| | Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, German American,
Physicist |
| I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
| | Alberto Giacometti,
1901-1966, Swiss,
Sculptor |
| To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
| | Alex Grey,
1953-, American,
Artist |
| Of Manners gentle,/ of Affections mild; /In Wit a man;/Simplicity, a child.
| | Alexander Pope,
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| It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
| | Alfred Eisenstaedt,
1898-1995, American,
Photographer |
| Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
| | Alice Meynell,
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| The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
| | Alice Meynell,
1847-1922, English,
Poet |
| Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
| | Alice Meynell,
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| Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
| | Ambrose Bierce,
1842-1914, American,
Author |
| For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
| | Amy Lowell,
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| Happiness: We rarely feel it. /I would buy it, beg it, steal it,/ Pay in coins of dripping blood/ For this one transcendent good.
| | Amy Lowell,
1874-1925, American,
Poet |
| All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
| | Amy Lowell,
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| Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
| | Amy Lowell,
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| The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
| | Anais Nin,
1903-1977, French,
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