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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay you do more good to them by spending it in luxury than by giving it for by spending it in luxury you make them exert industry whereas by giving it you keep them idle.

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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.

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

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Author: Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Of all noises I think music is the least disagreeable.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay you do more good to them by spending it in luxury than by giving it for by spending it in luxury you make them exert industry whereas by giving it you keep them idle.