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Art Quotes by Mark Twain
- To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
- The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost…
- I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
- ...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.
- It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes...
- Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
- As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is…
- A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
- To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of…
- Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
More Art Quotes
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov