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Art Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
- The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
- The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.
- I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great…
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
- Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created…
- Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house…
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