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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot att

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Gustave Flaubert

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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Music
Author
Gustave Flaubert
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Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. – Gustave Flaubert

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Winter
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Gustave Flaubert
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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. – Erich Fromm

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Art

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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Art

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. – Andre Maurois

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Art

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

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If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the bodys sufferings. We shall become free. – Vinoba Bhave

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Life is just one damned thing after another! – Author unknown, c.1909, see quoteinvestigator.com/2015/09/02/life-one

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[T]he hours are even now never so full of gain as when I give them to the sky, the sea, the open wold. Why should we grudge Nature our heart? We might as well grudge it to the God who made the world. – Adeline Sergeant, The Story of a Penitent Soul: Being the Private Papers of Mr.

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The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. – David Attenborough

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