Quote by Baltasar Gracian
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art. – Baltasar Gracian

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I think people should be given a test much like drivers tests as to whether theyre capable of being parents! Its an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. Thats just work thats too hard. – Maurice Sendak

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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. – Austin OMalley

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. – Casey Stengel

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