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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to…
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a…
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the…
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She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the…
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world…
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate…
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I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.
— John Banville
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a…
— Walter Pater
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For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success†and “failure†had…
— Paul Auster
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One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones
— Finn Juhl
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
— Democritus
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The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.
— Morley Baer
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Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time…
— Thomas Kinkade
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