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Quote by William Hazlitt

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.”

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William Hazlitt, born on April 10, 1778, was an influential English essayist and literary critic. His works are renowned for their sharp observations and profound insights, which have had a lasting impact on 19th-century British literature. more

“Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as a whole was a pure, innocent victim, so that the world could be neatly divided up into evil people (particularly Arabs) and good people (particularly Americans and Israelis), and that the latter had a responsibility now to punish the former, is a large-scale example of what I’m talking about - just as it is immature and naive to suggest the mirror image of this view, namely that the western world is guilty in all respects and that all protestors and terrorists are therefore completely justified in what they do. In the same way, to suggest that all who possess guns should be locked up, or (the American mirror-image of this view) that everyone should carry guns so that good people can shoot bad ones before they can get up to their tricks, is simply a failure to think into the depths of what’s going on.”

God Evil Justice Theology Ethnocentrism

Book:Evil and the Justice of God

Source: Evil and the Justice of God

“Fuck art. I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference.”

Life Art

Author:Gerard Way

“To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand—that is art.”

Art Artist

Book:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.”

Art Sculpture

Book:I Sonetti Di Michelangelo: The 78 Sonnets of Michelangelo with Verse Translation

Source: I Sonetti Di Michelangelo: The 78 Sonnets of Michelangelo with Verse Translation

“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”

Art Words

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.”

Art Artists Pills

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.”

Art Poet Inventor Einstein

Book:Grooks 1

Source: Grooks 1

“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.”

Art Music Future Creating Jazz

Author:Miles Davis

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