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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloqu

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas Chamfort

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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall

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In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we dont know what were seeing, we overreact. – Jerry Saltz

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A picture is a poem without words. – Horace

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. – Christopher Marlowe

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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. – W. Somerset Maugham

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For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. – Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist

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