Mark Twain Quotes About Art
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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.
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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.
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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.
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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.
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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.
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Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
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Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.
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