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“Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.”
Quote by -Benjamin Disraeli
“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”
Quote by -Margaret Atwood
The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.
Quote by -Banksy
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.
Quote by -Banksy
“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“This is supposed to be an art form, not just a manufacturing establishment. The sensitivity that helps me to act, you see, also makes me react. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.”
Quote by -Marilyn Monroe
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
Quote by -D.H. Lawrence
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
Quote by -D.H. Lawrence
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
Quote by -D.H. Lawrence
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Quote by -D.H. Lawrence
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
Quote by -John Keats
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.
Quote by -John Keats
And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
Quote by -John Keats
All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.
Quote by -Alexander Pope
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Quote by -Alexander Pope
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree... Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood I will not have my thoughts instead of thee Who art dearer, better!
Quote by -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
Quote by -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
Quote by -Philip Larkin
Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?
Quote by -John Milton
"Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art."
Quote by -Allen Ginsberg
It is the glory and good of Art That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth - to mouths like mine, at least.
Quote by -Robert Browning
My whole life long I learn'd to love, This hour my utmost art I prove. And speak my passion—— heaven or hell? She will not give me heaven? 'Tis well!
Quote by -Robert Browning
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Quote by -Robert Browning
In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.
Quote by -Alan Watts
Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
Quote by -Alan Watts
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
Quote by -Alan Watts
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
Quote by -Alan Watts
For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
Quote by -Alan Watts
We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of leisure and play. In the United States even poor people have lots of money compared with the wretched and skinny millions of India, Africa, and China, while our middle andupper classes (or should we say "income groups") are as prosperous as princes. Yet, by and large, they have but slight taste for pleasure. Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.
Quote by -Alan Watts
The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.
Quote by -Alan Watts
The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.
Quote by -Alan Watts