"Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man."

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Source : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.3 (published 1831).

Henry Fuseli

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“Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.”

Source : "The Hermit's Emergency Shelf". "How to Be a Hermit or a Bachelor Keeps House". Book by Will Cuppy, 1929.
“So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.”
“Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.”
“Well, it made you famous.”
“Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about miracles, I mean, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.”
“I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.”
“The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.”
“I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.”

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