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Mary Quant: The fashionable woman...

Mary Quant: The fashionable woman...

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

Source: In The...

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Paul Cezanne: The awareness of...

Paul Cezanne: The awareness of...

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Eugene Delacroix: The source of...

Eugene Delacroix: The source of...

The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or...

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Eugene Delacroix: Experience has two...

Eugene Delacroix: Experience has two...

Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal; the second that we must not...

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Paul Gauguin: Art requires philosophy,...

Paul Gauguin: Art requires philosophy,...

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of...

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Nicolas Copernicus: After I had...

Nicolas Copernicus: After I had...

After I had addressed myself to this very difficult and almost insoluble problem, the suggestion at length came to me...

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Charles A Lindbergh: The improvement of...

Charles A Lindbergh: The improvement of...

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it...

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Alexander Fleming: I have been...

Alexander Fleming: I have been...

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice...

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George Washington Carver: My work is...

George Washington Carver: My work is...

My work is that of keeping every operation down so that the farmer and the man fartherest down can get hold of...

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George Washington Carver: Our creator is...

George Washington Carver: Our creator is...

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the...

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Jacques Lipchitz: Cubism is like...

Jacques Lipchitz: Cubism is like...

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look...

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Francis Picabia: Knowledge is ancient...

Francis Picabia: Knowledge is ancient...

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Source: 491, (Paris), 4 Mar...

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Francis Picabia: The world is...

Francis Picabia: The world is...

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Source: L'Humour...

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Francis Picabia: Pain has its...

Francis Picabia: Pain has its...

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Source: Who Knows: Poems and...

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Salvador Dali: We are all...

Salvador Dali: We are all...

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its...

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Michelangelo: If we have...

Michelangelo: If we have...

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same...

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Georges Braque: To define a...

Georges Braque: To define a...

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Source: The...

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Auguste Rodin: Nobody does good...

Auguste Rodin: Nobody does good...

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Source: In The Forbes Book of Business...

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Eric Gill: Without philosophy man...

Eric Gill: Without philosophy man...

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

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Louise Nevelson: True strength is...

Louise Nevelson: True strength is...

True strength is delicate.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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