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Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it.

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can repair some of the damage we have done to our environment. The most extreme liberals believe that there is an original or a natural state in which the environment would be if we hadn't shown up on the scene, and that we have not only the ability but also a moral imperative to help nature return to this state.

Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.

Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.

Life and art are not two different things.

Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.

Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence, shed your pretensions, and master the art of ingenious love.

Life imitates art but art intimidates life.

Life is a beautiful thing. But you're always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in a movie business, it's striving to be noticed and appreciated.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

Life is a school of probability.

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. The Art of Peace is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good, and beautiful.

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.