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“History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.”
“All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.”
“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.”
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
“The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.”
“Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
“One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.”
“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
“There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.”
“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”
“I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.”
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
“All great ideas are dangerous.”
“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”
“The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?”
“Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.”
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”
“To create a little flower is the labour of ages.”
“History teaches everything, even the future.”
“How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.”
“Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.”
“History is Philosophy teaching by example.”