Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
Seneca
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PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.
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SENECA One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
RICHARD FOREMAN Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
JOHN UPDIKE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Virtue is the strong stem of man's nature, and music is the blossoming of virtue.
CONFUCIUS The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pro...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his pr...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.
PAUL EIPPER Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC “The artist must be in the art. If the art does not reflect the work of the artist, then it was cr...
AARON CHAPMAN I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start fro...
PARACELSUS The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start fro...
PHILIPUS AUREOLUS PARACELSUS Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a han...
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are consci...
IMMANUEL KANT Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
DAVID HOCKNEY Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice
CHINESE PROVERBS No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing th...
JOHN RUSKIN The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It k...
MING-DAO DENG Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
PABLO PICASSO Let not miracle be your focus but be strong in diligence which is an eternal virtue.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON Art will never be able to exist without nature.
PIERRE BONNARD It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, ...
JOHNNY RICH Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
LAO TZU Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable...
JOHN UPDIKE When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul...
DEBBIE FORD Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the applica...
JOSEPH ADDISON Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
NORTHROP FRYE Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
BILLY BOY FRANKLIN A man's virtue is not measured by who he is, but rather by what he does
EMANOUHL Dance is the art closest to nature.
MARTY RUBIN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
DAVID HOCKNEY Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart...
GERMANY KENT Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experien...
C.S. LEWIS Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, wh...
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS All good art is an indiscretion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS All good art is an indiscretion
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
IMRE LAKATOS High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
PIETRO METASTASIO We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
LOUIS NIZER To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
i...
HERACLITUS Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
THOMAS MORELL What is art? Nature concentrated.
HONORE DE BALZAC Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be burned, and have no...
BIBLE The nature of your work does not have to be the culture of your team.
JANNA CACHOLA All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPE A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; b...
THOMAS PAINE A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, b...
THOMAS PAINE Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plas...
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PARACELSUS As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-ba...
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