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If the subject of art will be a broken jug a small broken soul with a great self — Zbigniew Herbert in Why the Classics .

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Zbigniew Herbert in Why the Classics .

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How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides th — Edward Young
Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it — Oscar Wilde
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujours le — Charles Baudelaire
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. — Theodor Adorno
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but — Marcus Aurelius
What was Art, after all, if not simply giving out what you have inside you? Didn — Émile Zola
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them. — Benjamin Franklin
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. — William Cowper
There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is alm — Samuel Butler
Then never less alone than when alone. — Samuel Rogers
Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. — Alexander Pope
If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure. — Jean Ingelow John Jerome