Quote by Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such p

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination. – Elbert Hubbard

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Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join. – Elbert Hubbard

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know youre an artist. – David Hockney

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov

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All art requires courage. – Anne Tucker

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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. – Malcolm Bradbury

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For them that think deaths honesty wont fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. – Bob Dylan

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