Quote by Samuel Butler
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler

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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler

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Christianity
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler

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Fear
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A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – Samuel Butler

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Medical
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Perfection in art, as often in life, is better captured by eraser than pencil. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Art

Its art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isnt about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – contain multitudes. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. – Henry Rollins

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Art

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. – Agnes Martin

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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. – Dorothy Day

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I do love the films Ive done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and were trying to make people laugh and Im very proud of that. – Adam Sandler

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