James Joyce Quotes, Art Quotes, Invisible Quotes

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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What is art? Nature concentrated.

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True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Reading Quotes

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Respect Quotes , Art Quotes

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Art Quotes , Believe Quotes

That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided it is well known that he is an excellent man and revered by his people, he can only be attacked with difficulty.

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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

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Tags : Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes , Art Quotes , Deeds Quotes

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

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To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

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In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

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I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

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Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

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Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes

And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.

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Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Art Quotes , Home Quotes

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Secret Quotes