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It is curious that with my somewhat antinomian tendencies I should have gone to Trinity Hall – which was and is before all a Law College – and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Author: Edward Carpenter

It is curious that with my somewhat antinomian tendencies I should have gone to Trinity Hall – which was and is before all a Law College – and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.