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  2. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    Original form. "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." Coined by. Henrik Ibsen. " A picture is worth a thousand words " is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas [ 1] can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than ...

  3. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art" referred to in the original aphorism was the craft of medicine, which took a lifetime to acquire. arte et labore: by art and by labour: Motto of Blackburn Rovers F.C. arte et marte: by skill and by fighting

  4. Aniconism in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Islam. In some forms of Islamic art, aniconism (the avoidance of images of sentient beings) stems in part from the prohibition of idolatry and in part from the belief that the creation of living forms is God 's prerogative. The Quran itself does not prohibit visual representation of any living being. The hadith collection of Sahih Bukhari ...

  5. Publilius Syrus - Wikipedia

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    Publilius Syrus (fl. 85–43 BC [1]), was a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae.He was a Syrian from Antioch who was brought as a slave to Roman Italy.Syrus was brought to Rome on the same ship that brought a certain Manilius, astronomer - not the famous Manilius of the 1st century AD (see Pliny, NH X, 4-5), and Staberius Eros the grammarian. [2]

  6. Hubert van Eyck - Wikipedia

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    Hubert van Eyck ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦybɛrt vɑn ˈɛik]) or Huybrecht van Eyck ( c. 1385/90 – 18 September 1426) was an Early Netherlandish painter and older brother of Jan van Eyck, [ a] as well as Lambert and Margareta, also painters. The absence of any single work that he can clearly be said to have completed continues to make an ...

  7. Netherlandish Proverbs - Wikipedia

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    Netherlandish Proverbs ( Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil -on-oak- panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.

  8. Art for art's sake - Wikipedia

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    Art for art's sake. Art for art's sake —the usual English rendering of l'art pour l'art ( pronounced [laʁ puʁ laʁ] ), a French slogan from the latter half of the 19th century—is a phrase that expresses the philosophy that 'true' art is utterly independent of any and all social values and utilitarian function, be that didactic, moral, or ...

  9. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung - Wikipedia

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    Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung ( simplified Chinese: 毛主席语录; traditional Chinese: 毛主席語錄; pinyin: Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù) is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong (formerly romanized as Mao Tse-tung), the former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, published from 1964 to 1979 and widely ...

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