<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393516" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Decalogue Of The Artist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. You shall love beauty, which is the shadow of God <br>over the Universe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.There is no godless art. Although you love not the <br>Creator, you shall bear witness to Him creating His likeness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.You shall create beauty not to excite the senses <br>but to give sustenance to the soul. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV. You shall never use beauty as a pretext for luxury <br>and vanity but as a spiritual devotion. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">V. You shall not seek beauty at carnival or fair <br>or offer your work there, for beauty is virginal <br>and is not to be found at carnival or fair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI. Beauty shall rise from your heart in song, <br>and you shall be the first to be purified. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII.The beauty you create shall be known <br>as compassion and shall console the hearts of men. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIII.You shall bring forth your work as a mother <br>brings forth her child: out of the blood of your heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">IX. Beauty shall not be an opiate that puts you <br>to sleep but a strong wine that fires you to action, <br>for if you fail to be a true man or a true woman, <br>you will fail to be an artist. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">X. Each act of creation shall leave you humble, <br>for it is never as great as your dream and always <br>inferior to that most marvelous dream of God <br>which is Nature.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gabriela+Mistral">Gabriela Mistral</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393516" data-title="Decalogue Of The Artist de Gabriela Mistral" data-description="I. You shall love beauty, which is the shadow of God over the Universe. II.There is no godless art. Although you love not the Creator, you shall bear witness to Him creating His likeness. III.You shall create beauty not to excite the senses ..."></div> </div> </div>

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