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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

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Death
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Samuel Butler
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler

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Argument & Debate
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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
Art
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Only an artist with a part of God in him can see beauty in the commonplaces of life. The rest merely mark time until they die. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Art

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul. – George Bernard Shaw

Category:
Art

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. – Jim Hodges

Category:
Art

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. – Queen Elizabeth II

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Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. – Ambrose Bierce

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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. – Edward W. Howe

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We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man. – Amy Vanderbilt

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Ritual, Ceremony