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| Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. | Arthur James Balfour | 1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister |
| I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art. | Dean William R. Inge | 1860-1954, Dean of St Paul's, London |
| Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book. | Edward Gibbon | 1737-1794, British Historian |
| The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic |
| Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. | Francoise Sagan | 1935-, French Novelist, Playwright |
| People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. | Frederic Raphael | 1931-, British Author, Critic |
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| The existence of good bad literature --the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously --is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee. | John Hoskins | 1566-1638, British Lawyer, Wit |
| Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them. | Johnson | |
| In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. | Northrop Frye | 1912-1991, Canadian Literary Critic |
| Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. | Tatyana Tolstaya | |
| If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
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| Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgement, in that it creates. | Thomas Mann | 1875-1955, German Author, Critic |
| It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. | EugLne Delacroix | 1798-1863, French Artist |
| The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. | Heinrich Heine | 1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist |
| No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. | Andy Warhol | 1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker |
| The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. | Atwell | |
| Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. | Donald Trump | 1946-, American Businessman |
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| Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| The art of communication is the language of leadership. | James Humes | American Lawyer, Speaker, Author |
| Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. | John Welch | 1935-, American Businessman, Chairman of General Electric |
| A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece. | Ludwig Erhard | German Politician |
| Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. | Marshall Mcluhan | 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist |
| Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. | Miguel De Cervantes | 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet |
| Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively. | Norman Allen | |
| Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. | P. D. Armour | |
| Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. | Robert W. Sarnoff | |
| Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting. | Stephen Bayley | 1951-, British Design Critic |
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| Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. | Vance Packard | 1914-, American Journalist, Writer |
| The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. | Wyndham Lewis | 1882-1957, British Author, Painter |
| Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values. | A. Alvarez | 1929-, British Critic, Poet, Novelist |
| We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. | A. C. Swinburne | 1837-1909, British Poet |
| A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. | Abraham H. Maslow | 1908-1970, American Psychologist |
| To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God. | Abu Sa'id | |
| The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. | Adolf Berle | 1937-1971, American Politician |
| Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. | Agnes De Mille | 1905-1993, American Dancer, Choreographer, Writer |
| Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. | Al Capp | 1909-1979, American Cartoonist |
| To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
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