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Thomas A Edison
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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D H Lawrence :
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Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
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Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.
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Kenneth Clark :
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Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies — in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable — as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.
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Billy Corgan :
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...What people miss about (Marilyn) Manson is that he is just reflecting, he's an artist, people want to focus that energy on him, but it's not really him, it's really about you. So for every guy sitting there with a beer and a .45 in his belt, Manson is just speaking to that end of society. He's speaking as an artist. He's not speaking as himself, and that's where people get really lost with Manson.
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They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
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Every speech, for Olivier, is like a mass of marble at which the sculptor chips away until its essential form and meaning are revealed. No matter how ignoble the character he plays, the result is always noble as a work of art. (p. 208)
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Marilyn Manson :
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I've seen the little tidal waves that I've caused in the music industry, and how people are becoming more evolved in their images. And there are a lot of new Marilyn Manson-esque people, but I don't get mad at those things. It's like there's one real Santa Claus, but there's a lot of fake ones at the mall.
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Helen Keller :
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Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.
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Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. […] A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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What man's mind can create, man's character can control.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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