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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one\'s neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

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.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.