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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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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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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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The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all…
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly…
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with…
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly…
— Walter Pater
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When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation…
— Peggy Fleming
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White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries…
— Jamake Highwater
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Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live…
— Christina Hoff Sommers
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Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of…
— Marshall McLuhan
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For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments…
— Robert Motherwell
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I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
— William Safire
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When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit…
— Thomas Moore
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