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

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

Other quotes by John Donne

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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Poetry
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John Donne
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When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. – John Donne

Category:
Exercise
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John Donne
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. – John Donne

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Nudity
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John Donne
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Art
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I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahns work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isnt simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved isms and twists. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

They tell you that the great painters mixed blood with their pigments. It is not true; the compound used was brains. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Art

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – C. S. Lewis

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Art

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. – Saul Bellow

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Art

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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasnt doing. – Theodore Bikel

Category:
Beauty

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. – William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

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Nature

Leon Theremins original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. Its like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. – Robert Moog

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design

Form follows function. – Louis Sullivan

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architecture