“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Excellence is an art won by training
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
— Aristotle
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Winners have the ability to step back
“Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.”
— Denis Waitley
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Every good painter paints what he is.
“Every good painter paints what he is.”
— Jackson Pollock
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Art is not a thing; it is
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
— Elbert Hubbard
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A great city, whose image dwells in
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are
“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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The person who knows one thing and
“The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.”
— Og Mandino
Author: Og Mandino
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Because most people are not sufficiently employed
“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.”
— Laura Riding
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History repeats itself, but the special call
“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”
— Joseph Conrad
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The art of acting consists in keeping
“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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