Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.

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The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

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The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

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Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car.

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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

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Sleep is no mean art.

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The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

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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.

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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Art Quotes , Fun Quotes