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• Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one
  whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen....
• Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere
  like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show....
• Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Demosthene...
• Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affai...
• Cookie making is finger painting for adults.
• Remember what Simonides said,--that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Rules for the Preservation of Health, 7...
• The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
  -- Milton Friedma...
• A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
  GONCOURT...