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Art Quotes by John Gardner
- Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.
- Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
- To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so…
- What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human…
- In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe…
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- 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
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- 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
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle