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Art Quotes by Denis Diderot
- Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art…
- First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes