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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
Giacomo Casanova
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
Marilyn Manson
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Gertrude Stein
Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie Chaplin
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Evelyn Waugh
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
Lewis Mumford
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Lewis Mumford
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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