fine quotes

The fine wine leaves you with something pleasant; the ordinary wine just leaves.

- Maynard Andrew Amerine
Quoted in Clifton Fadiman The New Joy of Wine (1990).

It is onlya mild exaggeration to say that now no one wants Fine Artists, except Fine Artists, and that neither they nor anyone else have the slightest idea what they should be doing, or for whom they should be doing it.

- Peter Fuller
Beyond the Crisis in  Art.

Old Cary Grant fine. How you?

- Cary pseudonym of  Archibald Leach Grant
His response to a journalist's terse cable to his press agent,'How old Cary Grant?' Attributed.

May will be fine next year as like as not: Oh, ay, but then we shall be twenty-four.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  Last Poems, no.9.

Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, 30  Apr, quoting an old college tutor. Collected in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

   In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

- Colin MacInnes
England, Half English,'Pop Songs and Teenagers'.

The law of Moses is harsh and severe, as for an enslaved and stubborn people, but it punishes theft with a fine, not death. Let us not think that in his new law of mercy, where he treats us with the tenderness of a father,God has given us greater license to be cruel to one another.

- SirThomas More
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

Fineart isthat inwhichthe hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

-John Ruskin
  TheTwo Paths, lecture 2.