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"The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury." »Schopenhauer
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"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection." »E.C. Stedman
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"Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter." »G.K. Chesterton
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"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds." »Aesop
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"There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts." »Christine Lavin
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"Juanita Ooh that boy's a fine piece of work all right. He's a fine piece of ass though, too." »Billy Madison
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"The arts are the servant wisdom its master." »Seneca
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"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe
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"The arts are the servant; wisdom its master." »Seneca
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"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life." »M. C. Richards
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato, The Republic
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"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life." »Oscar Wilde
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"Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings." »Vicki Baum
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"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." »Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." »George Washington
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"By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows." »Ovid
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!" »Sonjay Anand
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"What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides." »Felix G. Rohatyn
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"America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White
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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"Charlie You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called F-You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground." »So I Married an Axe Murderer
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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book." »Edward Gibbon
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"In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat." »Auguste Renoir
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