An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
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Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.
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Imitation is suicide.
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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine
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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounce...
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of a...
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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A man is known by the books he reads.
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they ...
