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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an
art of writing.
Isaac D'Israeli
Quotes , Source: Literary Character (ch. XI)
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All passes, Art alone
Enduring stays to us;
The Bust out-lasts the throne,--
The coin, Tiberius.
Henry Austin Dobson
Quotes , Source: Ars Victrix, imitated from Theophile Gautier
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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any
end, is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Society and Solitude--Art
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High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
[Fr., L'Art supreme
Seule a l'eternite
Et le buste
Survit la cite.]
Theophile Gautier
Quotes , Source: L'Art
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As all Nature's thousands changes
But one changeless God proclaim;
So in Art's wide kingdom ranges
One sole meaning still the same:
This is Truth, eternal Reason,
Which from Beauty takes its dress,
And serene through time and season
Stands aye in loveliness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: Wilhelm Meister's Travels (ch. XIV)
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His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: Retaliation (l. 139)
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The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: The Traveller (l. 137)
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The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a
comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose
within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator;
and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth
spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and
which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in
reference to the proposed result.
John Mason Good
Quotes , Source: The Book of Nature (series I, lecture IX)
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Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]
Hippocrates of Iphicrates
Quotes , Source: Aphorismi (I, Nobilissimus Medicus)
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their
significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's
uses.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),
Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
Quotes , Source: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects--Art and Life
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Iliad (bk. 23, l. 382), (Pope's translation)
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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.]
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Quotes , Source: Ars Poetica (9)
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Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.
Mrs. Anna Jameson
Quotes , Source: Memoirs and Essays--The House of Titian
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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Ben Jonson
Quotes , Source: Every Man Out of his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an
addled egg.
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by
the cart,
But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it
art?
Rudyard Kipling
Quotes , Source: The Conundrum of the Workshops
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Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification
of nature.
Susanne K. Langer
Quotes , Source: Mind (vol. I)
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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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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