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American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.
There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; andthere ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
I am really persuaded that if we were to inquire of all the Cities whichhave fallen by Siege into the Power of new Masters, who it was that subjected and overcame them, they would tell you, the Architect; and that they were strong enough to have despised the armed Enemy, but not to withstand the Shocks of the Engines, the Violence of the Machines and the Force of other Instruments of War with whichthe Architect, distressed, demolished and ruinated them.On the contrary, they would inform you that their greatest Defense lay in the Art and Assistance of the Architect.
Life does not imitate art. It imitates bad television.
Art comes to you proposing to give nothing but the 24 highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Art cannot hold its breath too long without dying.
La ge ome trie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est a' l'art de l'e crivain. Geometry is to sculpture what grammar is to the art of the writer.
L'art, de plus en plus, aura une patrie. Art, more and more, will have a country.
Ars autem deficit ab operatione naturae. Art pales when compared to the workings of nature.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly everyaction and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
I dread this like the dentist, rather more so: To me Art's subject is the human clay, And landscape but a background to a torso; All Ce z anne's apples I would give away For one small Goya or a Daumier.
Film art has a greater influence on the minds of the general public than any other art.
L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.
Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassie' re. At least, not in the English sense.But do not forget that brassie' re is the French for life-jacket.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
If photography is allowed to stand in forart in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thankstothenatural support it will find inthestupidityof themultitude.It must return toits real task, which isto be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.
Woebetidethemanwhogoestoantiquity for thestudyof anything other than ideal art, logic and general method!
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalite ; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always a product of art.
L'art moderne a une tendance essentiellement de moniaque. Modern art tends towards the demonic.
Early in life,Duveennoticed that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money, and his entire astonishing career was the product of that simple observation.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy.
Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute.
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co- creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not beenreached.Whether peopleare artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
He who would do good to another man must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
Education is the taming or demonstration of the soul's raw passionsnot suppressing them or excising them, whichwould deprivethesoul of its energybutforming and informing them as art.
L'Art est fait pour troubler, la Science rassure. Art was made to disturb, science reassures.
Natureisnot at variancewith art norart withnature,they both being the servants of his providence: art is the perfection of nature.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth, we shall practise in heaven. Work done least rapidly, Art most cherishes.
It is the gloryand good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine, at least.
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.
As soon as anyart is pursued with a view to money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.
Then let Ausonia, skilled in every art To soften manners, but corrupt the heart, Pour her exotic follies o'er the town, To sanctionVice, and hunt Decorum down.
Art,Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair.
Fair Italy! Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee?
Art is a form of communication that insinuates.We expect the artist to have more to say than what he communicated and suspect that what he said was a subterfuge for hiding something.
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad, and then made aneven moreterrifying discoverythe difference between very good writing and true art: it is subtle, but savage.
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that art is long. Success is in the silences, Though fame is in the song.
This isnot to pretend that reading is a passive act.On the contrary, it is highly creative, or re-creative; itself an art.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Theyare spoiling the oldest art in the worldthe art of pantomime. Theyare ruining the great beauty of silence.
We will just make it againit's onlyart.
The man who has not realized the difficulty of art never does anything worthwhile; the man who realizes it too soon does nothing at all.
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men not having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Many peopleapparentlydon'ttrusttheir reactionstoart or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it.In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not.
Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in Art.
What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.
Literature istheart of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, tothe condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
L'art pour l'art, sans but, car tout but de nature l'art. Mais l'art atteint au but qu'il n'a pas. Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.
To create is first of all to destroythere is and can be no such thing as authentic art until the bons trucs (whereby we are taught to see and imitate on canvas and in stone and by words this so-called world) are entirely and
Ireland is one of the few countriesperhaps the lastwhere the boundaries between politics and art have never been fixed.
Custom that is before all law, Nature that is above all art.
Learn then to dance, you that are princes born, And lawful lords of earthly creatures all; Imitate them, and thereof take no scorn, (For this new art to them is natural) And imitate the stars celestial. For when pale death your vital twist shall sever, Your better parts must dance with them forever.
Art does not expand, it repeats itself.
Art cannot be made with an intent to please.
Old Mother Wit, and Nature gave Shakespeare and Fletcher all they have; In Spenser, and in Jonson, Art Of slower Nature got the start.
The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceivingHOW NOT TO DO IT.
Les beaute s ont, dans les arts, le me" me fondement que les ve rite s dans la philosophie.Qu'est-ce que la ve rite ? La conformite de nos jugements avec les e" tres. Qu'est-ce que la beaute d'imitation? La conformite de l'image avec la chose. Beauty has in art the same foundation as does truth in philosophy. What is the truth? The conformity of our judgements with beings. What is the beauty of imitation? The conformity of the image with the thing.
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern.
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.
Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit; But Fortune, that has made a mistress of me, Has thrust me out to the wide world, unfurnish'd Of falsehood to be happy.
The court he practised, not the courtier's art: Large was his wealth, but larger was his heart.
Aphorismsgive you more for your time and money than any other literary form.Only the poem comes near to it, but then most good poems either start off from an aphorism orarrive at one Aphorisms and epigrams are the corner-stones of literaryart.
Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.
You haveto take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessaryart. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
The Shock of the New: seven historic exhibitions of modern art.
Theartof painting cannot betrulyjudgedsave bysuchas are themselves good painters; from others verily it is hidden even as a strange tongue.
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto.Love and delight are better teachers of the Art of Painting than compulsion is.
One of the strongest motives that lead people to give their lives to art and science is the urge to flee from everyday life, with its drab and deadly dullness and thus to unshackle the chains of one's own transient desires, which supplant one another in an interminable succession so long as the mind is fixed on the horizon of daily environment.
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which ourdull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive formsthis knowledge, this feeling, isatthe centerof true religiousness.In thissense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
The emotion of art is impersonal.
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an'objective correlative'such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoo« n how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Why don't they stick to murder and leave art to us?
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Il ne faut pas toujours croire que le sentiment soit tout. Dans les arts, il n'est rien sans la forme. You must not think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Les oeuvres les plus belles sont celles o u' il y a le moins de matie' re; plus l'expression se rapproche de la pense e, plus le mot colle dessus et dispara|"t, plus c'est beau. Je crois que l'avenir de l'art est dans ces voies. The most beautiful works are those that have the least content; the closer the expression is to the thought, the more indistinguishable the word from the content, the more beautiful is the work. I believe that the future of art lies in this direction.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
Le bon critique est celui qui raconte les aventures de son a" me au milieu des chefs-d'oeuvres. The good critic is one who recognizes the adventures of his own soul in great works of art.
L'histoire n'est pas une science, c'est un art.Onn'y re ussit que par l'imagination. History isnot a science. It is an art.One can succeed in it only through the imagination.
Despite what even manyartists appear to believe, art is not and should not be merelya skill. It should actually be completelyand utterly the language of our feelings, our frame of mind; indeed, even of our devotion and our prayers.
Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.
The trouble with Moore is that he knows what a work of art is, and is trying to make one.
Art is significant deformity.
Yo soy un artista. El placer de la carne le resta fuerzas a mi vocacio n picto rica, prefiero sentir que los jugos de mi sexo fluyen hacia un cuadro, lo irrigan, lo fertilizan, lo realzan; ca strame el goce de la carne, satisfa ceme el goce del arte. Iamanartist.The pleasure ofthefleshrobsstrengthfrom myartistic vocation, I prefer to feel my sexual juices flow toward a painting, wash over it, fertilize it, realize it; the delights of the flesh castrate me, the delights of art satisfy me.
Some advice: do not paint too much after nature. Art is an abstraction; derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more ofthe creationwhich will result than of nature.
If we cannot spare some patience towards a piece of music or art, what hope do we have for showing it to another human being?
Wenn es eine Freude ist das Gute zu genieÞen, so ist es eine gr o« Þere das Bessere zu empfinden, und in der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug. As it is a joy to enjoy what isgood, so it is a greater joy to experience what is better, and in art the best isgood enough.
When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?
The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.
Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.
I believe that the scientist is trying to expand absolute truth and the artist absolute beauty, so that I find in art and science, and in an attempt to live a good life, all the religion I want.
The art of the masses.
The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.
Her bygone simplicity was the art that conceals art.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Drawing is onlya necessary evil, proportions are easily determined: colour isthe goal, the beginning and end of art.
Bullfighting is the onlyart in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
As my poor father used to say In1863, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee!
'Tis thou, alone, who with thy mystic fan, Work'st more than Wisdom, Art, or Nature can, To rouse the sacred madness; and awake The frost-bound-blood, and spirits; and to make Them frantic with thy raptures, flashing through The soul, like lightning, and as active too.
A sweet disorder in the dress 400 Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility: Do more bewitch me, than when Art Is too precise in every part.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
Dress is a form of visual art, a creation of images with the visible self as its medium.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize Art in living forms and social intercourse.
A nation's art isgreatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Close by the Hudson, inThe iron palaces of Art glare down On such as, wandering in the streets below, Perambulate in glamorous SoHo, A spot acclaimed by savant and by bard As forcing chamber of the Avant-Garde.
La ve rite de l'art ne saurait jamais e" trela re alite absolue. L'art ne peut donner la chose me" me. The truth of art should never beabsolute reality. Art cannot show the thing itself.
Le but de l'art est presque divin: ressusciter, s'il fait de l'histoire; cre er, s'il fait de la poe sie. The goal of art is almost divine: to resuscitate, if it concerns history; to create, if it concerns poetry.
Le drame tient de la trage die par la peinture des passions et de la come die par la peinture des caracte' res. Le drame est la troisie' me grande forme de l'art. Indrama, tragedy paintsthepassions and comedy paints characters. Drama is the third great form of art.
Art may make a suit of clothes; But nature must produce a man.
A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.
Anti-classic art, if it may even be called an art, is merely theart oftheidle.It isthe doctrine ofthosewho desireto produce without working, to know without learning.
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
In art economy is always beauty.
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
My religion and myartthey are all my life.
You can't learn architecture any more than you can learn a sense of music or of painting.You shouldn't talk about art, you should do it.
It's got to be clear, back in your own mind, that serving the client is onething and theart of architectureanother.
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold; Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told, Or stair, or courts; but standst an ancient pile, And these grudged at, art reverenced the while.
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adamsat under theTree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devilwhispered behind theleaves,'It'spretty, but is it Art?'
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart; But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: 'It's clever, but is it Art?'
But I consort with long-haired things In velvet collar-rolls, Who talk about the Aims of Art, And 'theories'and 'goals', And moo and coo with women-folk About their blessed souls.
I have now reached the point where I can look over the great art of antiquityand its Renaissance.But, for myself, I cannot find anyartistic connection with ourown times. And to want to create something outside of one's own age strikes me as suspect.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Art islike Creation: it holdsgood onthelast dayas onthe first.
Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art.
What calls me is that lifted, rough-tongued bell (Art, if you like) whose individual sound Insists I too am an individual.
It is well to start by distinguishing the few really greatthemajornovelistswho count inthesamewayas the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.
Then down came the lidthe day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo.World-politics stepped in, and a war was started whichhasnot ended yet: 'a war to end war'.But it merely ended art. It did not end war.
In Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the workall planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctoryaffair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
All art is solitaryand the studio is a torture area.
The art of drawing is the art of omission.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Human temperaments are too diverse; we can never agree how drunk we like our art to be.
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.
Anything can make us look, onlyart can make us see.
Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.
If the art of poetry isthe art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Film is the least realistic of art forms.
Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.
Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.
O gentle Faustus, leave this damne' d art, This magic, that will charm thy soul to hell.
Is, to dispute well, logic's chiefest end? Affords this art no greater miracle?
procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenitya soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
We do not need art museums to worship dead works, weneed living factories ofthesoulinthestreets, inthe trams, in the factories, in studios, and in the workers' houses.
Ihave only toomuch of awife inthis art of mine, who has always kept me in tribulation, and my children shall be the works I leave, which, even if theyare naught, will live a while.
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit inthe face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny,Time, Love, Beautywhat you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off-key perhaps, but I will sing.
Art is onlya means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant In becoming an end it defeats itself.
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.
The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.There can be no substitute for myexperience and intuited knowledge.
In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?
The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.
Mon mestier et mon art, c'est vivre. My trade and art is to live.
Ayear passed; a year of art and dissipationone part art, two parts dissipation.We mounted and descended at pleasure the rounds of society's ladder.
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Aworkof art has no importance whatever to society.It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. 606
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art.
Geometry is that part of universal mechanics which accurately proposes and demonstrates the art of measuring.
With all allowance made for Marx's erudition and his historic impact upon the social sciences, especially sociology, it is as an art united with prophecy, virtually religious prophecy, that Marxism survives.
Mensch werden ist eine Kunst. To become human is art.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street I am for Kool-art, 7-UP art, Pepsi-art, Sunshine art, 39 cents art,15 cents art,Vatronol art, Dro-bomb art,Vam art, Menthol art,L & M art,Ex-lax art,Venida art,Heaven Hill art, Pamryl art, San-o-med art, Rx art, 9.99 art, Now art,Newart, Howart, Fire sale art, Last Chance art,Only art, Diamond art,Tomorrow art, Franks art, Ducks art, Meat-o-rama art.
Weshall neverknowall about artor thevalues of art until all art is at an end; meanwhile artists will continue to instruct us.
The novel is practicallya Protestant form of art; it is the product of the free mind, of the autonomous individual.
There is no boundary line to art. Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
All art constantlyaspires towardsthe condition of music.
Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highestquality toyourmomentsasthey pass,and simply for those moments'sake.
Thenover thepark (where Ifirst inmy life, it being a great frost, did see people sliding with their skates, which is a very pretty art).
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
There is no abstract art.You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.When we love a womanwe don't start measuring her limbs.
Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
Observe that it is a grave error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Dying, Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
First follow Nature, and your judgement frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force and beauty must to all impart, At once the source and end and test of art.
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art, No language, but the language of the heart.
Ev'n copious Dryden, wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot.
Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over- simplification.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain'the sublime' In the old sense.Wrong from the start No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.
Art very possibly ought to be the supreme achievement, the'accomplished', but there is the other satisfactory effectthat of a man hurling himself at an indomitable chaos and yanking and hauling as much of it as possible into some sort of order (or beauty) aware of it both as chaos and as potential.
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.
What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write shows The difference there is betwixt Nature and Art: I court others in verse: but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart.
The detective novel isthe classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.
He said that there is no art without practice, and no practice without art.
Literature is not an abstract science, to which exact definitions can be applied.It is an Art rather, the success of which depends on personal persuasiveness, on the author's skill to give as on ours to receive.
Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Tell me, frankly, what ought to remain of Lenin: an art bronze, oil portraits, etchings, watercolours, his secretary's diary, his friends'memoirs or a file of photographs taken of him at work and rest, archives of his books, writing pads, notebooks, shorthand reports, films, phonograph records? I don't think there's any choice. Art hasno place inmodernlife Everycultured modern man must wage war against art, as against opium. Photograph and be photographed!
Everyone knowsthat thelabel Modern Art no longer has any relation to the words that compose it. To be Modern Art a work need not be either modern nor art; it need not even be a work. A three-thousand-year-old mask from the South Pacific qualifies as Modern and a piece of wood found on a beach becomes Art.
As we have seen Modern Art does not have to be actually new; itonlyhastobe new tosomebodytothe last lady who found out about the driftwood.
Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
Decorative art doesnot existonlyart, intimate, heroic, or epic.
There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.
Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.
But could we not reach the point of highest perfection in a new kind of art, in this art of landscape, and perhaps reach a higher beauty than existed before?
Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.
Life without industry isguilt, and industry without art is brutality.
Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.
He meant to gather for America an undreamed-of collection of art so great and complete that a trip to Europe would be superfluous.
Art must take reality by surprise.
L'art pour l'art est un vain mot. L'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voila' la religion que je cherche. Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I search for.
Art is dedicated echo.
Nothing is so poor and melancholy as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notesah, that is where the art resides.
If it is art it is not for all, and if it is for all it is not art.
Dal | 's importance for the Surrealists at that time, and for art historians now, is that he found a way to put Freud on canvas.
Posing is a performing art.
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
Economy is the art of making the most of life.
That's the difference between us.You talk of art Mr Goldwyn, I think of money.
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
What be the fruits of speaking art? What grows by the words?
Poetry therefore, is an art of imitation A speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight.
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
But when I plead, she bids me play my part, And when I weep, she says tears are but water: And when I sigh, she says I know the art, And when I wail, she turns herself to laughter.
The historyof theVictorian age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historianignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
The art of war is of vital importance to the state.
Artthe one achievement of Man which has made the long trip from all fours seem well advised.
This is the end of Art. I am glad I have had my day.
All pictorial or plastic art is useless; art should be a monster which casts servile minds into terror.
Dada began not as an art form but as a disgust.
La politique est l'art d'empe" cher les gens de se me" ler de ce qui les regarde. Politics istheart of preventing people fromtaking part in affairs which concern them.
Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.
The century that began with a golden age in all the arts (or at least the golden twilight of one) is ending not so much without art as without the idea of art.
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
Sir Henry Wottonwas also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which he would say,'it was anemployment forhisidletimea rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.'
I do not think I shall ever forget the sight of Etna at sunset Nothing I have ever seen in Art or Nature was quite so revolting.
Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because the work of the master is his self. But in order to be Rembrandt in ourdayshe would have used new ways that would give a new culture.
There is no history of artthere is the history of artists.
Antifeminists, from Chesterton down to Dr Lionel Tayler, want women to specialise in virtue.While men are rolling round the world having murderous and otherwise sinful adventures of an enjoyable nature, in commerce, exploration or art, women are to stayat home earning the promotion of the human race to a better world.
Art should be independent of all clap-trapshould stand alone, and appeal totheartisticsense ofeye orear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements'and 'harmonies'.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
Art never expresses anything but itself.
It isthrough Art, and through Art only, that we canrealise our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
All art is immoral.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
Whenartcommunicates,a humanexperience isactively offered and actively received.Below this activity threshold there can be no art.
It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its very own to verify the authenticity.
Not 'Seeing is Believing', you ninny, but 'Believing is Seeing'.For modernart has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.
Today educated people look upon traditional religious tiesCatholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Jewishas matters of social pedigree. It is only art that they look upon religiously.
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
Tout bonheur est un chef-d'½uvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre he sitation l'alte' re, la moindre lourdeur le de pare, la moindre sottise l'abe" tit. Happiness is always a work of art: the least fault distorts it, the least hesitation changes it, a little dullnessspoilsit, the smallest foolish act makes it idiotic.
Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.
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