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Art

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut. – Carly Fiorina

One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit. – Alexander Pope

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. – Andre Gide

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

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well. – Anton Chekhov

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. – Jimmy Carter

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. – E. M. Forster

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. – Jonathan Swift

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology. – Mason Cooley

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

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. – Alfred Adler

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. – Stendhal

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. – John Keats

Let each man exercise the art he knows. – Aristophanes

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. – Thomas Huxley

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau

All good art is an indiscretion. – Tennessee Williams