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Quote by Edmund Burke
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existe

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. – Andre Maurois

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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. – Edvard Munch

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Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, Id practice in front of the mirror and Id ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will. – Tyra Banks

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I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big. – Sting

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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a mans actions are, such must be his spirit. – Demosthenes

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. Hes not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, hes really needed. – Vaclav Havel

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