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Quote by James Whistler
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James Wh

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. – James Whistler

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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. – James Whistler

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson

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I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary. – Jerry Saltz

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Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. – Helen Rowland

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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. – Nicholas Chamfort

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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. – Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long

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To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years. – Dennis Miller

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