"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all."
-Samuel Butler
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"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."
-Samuel Butler
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"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."
-Samuel Butler
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
-Samuel Butler
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"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."
-Samuel Butler
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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