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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

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. – John Donne

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Kwanzaa
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John Donne
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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. – John Donne

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Prison
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John Donne
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What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. – Michel Foucault

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Art

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. – John Ruskin

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Art

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. – Hippocrates

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Art

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen. – Forest Whitaker

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The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. – Alexandra Fuller

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