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Quote by Henry Adams
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams

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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. – Henry Adams

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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. – Paul Getty

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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. – Jean Cocteau

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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. – George Bernard Shaw

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. – Alexander Pope

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