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Art is the most passionate orgy within mans grasp. - John Donne

Art is the most passionate orgy within mans grasp. – John Donne

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. – John Donne

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Beauty
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John Donne
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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. – John Donne

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Fight, Fighting
Author
John Donne
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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)

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Art

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

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. – William Blake

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Art

The art of creation is older than the art of killing. – Edward Koch

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Art

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If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. – Toni Morrison

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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right. – Malcolm Turnbull

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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. Id think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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famous