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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Art Expression Forms Further
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Artist Confusion Nature Point
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Any Art Had Looking
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Affairs Art Begins Concern
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

Cannot Found He His
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Ability Age Also Artistic
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A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Drawing Going Line Simply
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A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Dot Line Walk
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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Art Does Makes Rather
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

He Paint Painter Seen
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Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Being Concerned Faith State
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Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

Friends Him His Imaginary
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Accept Being Courage Oneself
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Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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The first duty of love is to listen.

Duty First Listen Love
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Answers Asking Being Even
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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Act Being Concerned Consists
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Being Courage Decision Free
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Astonishment Philosophy Root
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There is no love which does not become help.

Become Does Help Love
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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Again Day Embarrassment Everyone
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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Clouds Leaves Moving Respond
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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Answer Being Concern Concerns
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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Boredom is rage spread thin.

Boredom Rage Spread Thin
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Avoiding Being Neurosis Way
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Doubt Element Faith Opposite
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Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Also Always Cruelty Others
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Measures Sing Song Stirring
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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Act Being Faith Finite
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Asked Become Destiny Fulfill
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Expresses
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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Anxiety Appears Courage Disappeared
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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Being Fails Failure Forgiven
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Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Able Alone Because Concern
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Achievements Ambiguity Awareness Deepest
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You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

Hurt Guy Other Guy Want
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Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

Real Stereotype Gangster Big
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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

Wrote Story What Really
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Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.

Kind Brands Brand New Comics
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I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

Hurt Party People Conflict
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I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

Fighting Guy Trying Care
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I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
Perfection Style Storytelling Type
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A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

Hurt Powerful Men Style
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My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

Style Ability Anatomy Feel
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My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.

Evil Lovable Made Monsters
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I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.

Sport Guy Other Guys
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I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

People Forever Done Patient
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I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.

High Respect Pratt Institute Done My Best
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I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.
Admired Anybody Could Make
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