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

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

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There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule. – Samuel Butler

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Rules
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Samuel Butler
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Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell. – Samuel Butler

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Heaven
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Samuel Butler
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. – Samuel Butler

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Knowledge
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Art
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mothers womb. – Jean Arp

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Art

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. – George Bernard Shaw

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Art

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of arts audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. – Paul Gauguin

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Art

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. – William Hazlitt

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Art

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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isnt any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument. – Jerry Saltz

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