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Samuel Butler Quotes about Art

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butler
Life, Wisdom, Art
Notebooks "Life" (1912)

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

Samuel Butler
Life, Art, Bad Ass
Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.440, The Floating Press

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Samuel Butler
Art, Architecture, Revival
Notebooks (1912) ch. 8

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Samuel Butler
Art, War, Literature
Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Samuel Butler
Art, Evil, Interesting
Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.197, The Floating Press

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