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Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a thousand.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about art, magic

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic, love

Art has no enemy except ignorance.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about ignorance, art, magic, enemies

Nature without an effort surpasses art.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about art, magic, nature

Where art is displayed truth does not appear.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about art, magic, truth

To whiten ivory with dye is to spoil nature by art.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about art, magic, nature

Without favour, art is like a windmill without wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about art, magic

It is the perfection of art when no trace of the artist appears.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about artists, perfection, art, magic

A well which is drawn from is improved. [Art is improved by practice. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about art, magic

Rise never at nighttime, except thou art spying.

Proverbs and old sayings about art, magic

Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about language, art, magic

I kiss thee hide, because thou art to be a wine-bag.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about kiss, art, magic, wine

Thou too art mortal.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about art, magic

Art improves nature.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about art, magic, nature

Remember thou art but a man.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about art, magic, man

Art has no enemy but ignorance.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about ignorance, art, magic, enemies

Thou art a bitter bird, said the raven to the starling.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about art, magic, bitter

With time and art the leaf of the mulberry-tree becomes satin.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about salary, art, magic, time

Don't pass judgement on a work of art if you don't know how to create it.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about art, magic, work

Horses should be bays, jackasses should be greys, and mules should be blackish.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian