Philippe Nericault Destouches famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Criticism is easy, art is difficult.
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The absent are always in the wrong
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Those not present are always wrong.
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When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.
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Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.
-- Philippe Nericault Destouches
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The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
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To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Silence is a text easy to misread.
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Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
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Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
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