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Home Art The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Polly, August 10, 2013

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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