Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran
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- Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
- I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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- Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
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