Quote by Samuel Butler
The history of art is the history of revivals. - Samuel Butler

The history of art is the history of revivals. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler

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Quotations
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? – Samuel Butler

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power
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler

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Dreams
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Art
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Resolve and thou art free. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Art

Art for arts sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Art

Im free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I dont try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I dont compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. – Erykah Badu

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Art

What is Art? It is the response of mans creative soul to the call of the Real. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Art

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Poetry is life distilled. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Poetry

I dont write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. – Jeanette Winterson

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Change

Life is a journey, not a destination – we determine our destiny by the direction we take. – Anon.

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Journeys

Novelists… fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. – Fay Weldon

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Writing