Art will never be able to exist without nature. - Pierre Bonnard

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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide

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One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

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I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it. ― Marilyn Monroe

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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

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It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius

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