Quote by William Hazlitt
Rules and models destroy genius and art. - William Hazlitt

Rules and models destroy genius and art. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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Comedy
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Curmudgeonesque
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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. – William Hazlitt

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best
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Art
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. – Theodor Adorno

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Art

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Art

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. – William Morris

Category:
Art

In an artwork youre always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. – Damien Hirst

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Art

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We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, its in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics. – Zach Galifianakis

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They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. Thats the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build. – Michael Tilson Thomas

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relationship

Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. – W.R. Inge, Assessments and Anticipations

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings. – Asoka

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Law