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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. ↗

— Richard Holloway

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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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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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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. ↗

— Lord Byron

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