"The purpose of art is to console and……" — Ludwig Bemelmans
"The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others."
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11 Quotes by Ludwig Bemelmans
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Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so…
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Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good
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It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.
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To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You…
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I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in…
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In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
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America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat.…
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Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
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The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom…
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I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I…
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More Amuse Quotes
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
— Hillary Clinton
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
— Unknown Author
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
— Susan Sontag
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
— Maria Montessori
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even…
— Jeff Hardy
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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