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“Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain'd to die? Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.”

Men Art Lying Dies Left Wealth Rooms Fruit Quitting Thee Load Alas Thyself

Book:Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse

Source: Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse

“Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.”

Art Stills Country Seems Lying Passion Special Dying Benefits Art Is Organization Patient All Time Grants Providence Sensibility Shields Invincible Contemplative

Author:George Sand

“The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.”

Art Lying Language Knowing Translations

Book:The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972

Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972

“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.”

May Art Self Moments Lying Artist Healing Creative Expression Periods Solitude Encounters Me Alone Self Expression Alone Time Upkeep Recharging

Author:Julia Cameron

“Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

Feels Doe Art Facts Lying Artist Choices Teach Fine Harmony

Author:Arthur Wesley Dow

“Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.”

Way Art Body Lying Song Culture Process Attitude Music Is Relation Folks Features Folk Music

Author:Sam Hinton

“There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.”

Art War Form Lying Terrorism Advertising Slogans Idiotic

Author:Gore Vidal

“A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.”

World Art Lying Ability Worst Art Is Telling The Truth Worst Things Profanity

Author:Richard Pryor

“artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.”

Long Art Lying Artist Behinds Fields Criticism Critics Broads Crops

Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.”

Art Seems Age Lying Old Age Submission Cooperatives

Book:PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist

Source: PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist

“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.”

People Want Giving Long Art Whole Shows Lying Pleasure Imagine Affair Good Times Cheerful Hospitality Embellishment

Author:Isabel Fonseca

“A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.”

Want Doe Has Beens Art Lying Highest Art Is Concern Mere Appearance Aliens Hostile Great Art

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.”

Inspirational Art Ends Hands Motivational Lying Artist Differences Vision Tools Edges Guides Crafts Visible Vehicle Artisans Arts And Crafts

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.”

Art Form Lying Poetry Literature Centre Specificity

Author:Jonathan Culler

“Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.”

Thinking World Kind Art Whole Hands Bigs Lying Seeing Minutes Whole World Sand Broads Grain Strokes Examination Mundane Big Picture Grains Of Sand

Author:Peter Hammill

“Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.”

Ifs Men Believe Heart Art War Truth Lying Born Imagination Church Military Honesty Deeds Guides Titles Idols Altars

Book:Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].

Source: Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].

“By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.”

“Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.”

Heart Art Lying Religion Pronouns

Author:Martin Luther

“Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.”