Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we dont start measuring her limbs. – Pablo Picasso

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A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways theyre capable of understanding. – Steve Prefontaine

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. – Oscar Wilde

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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. – Martha Beck

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Ive been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. Its great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and its all fixed so its a scary thing. – Damien Hirst

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From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. After dinner, the men moved into the living room. I explained to the professor that this was Rosss way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth. – James Thurber

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Todays opportunities erase yesterdays failures. – Gene Brown

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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. – H. L. Mencken

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