#great art

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

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Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. ↗

— James Huneker

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. ↗

— Herman Melville

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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal. ↗

— Clive Bell

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction! ↗

— Gene Wilder

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Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. ↗

— Pauline Kael

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