Alan Watts Quotes, Art Quotes

You can't make love without art.

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My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

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

The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

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It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

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Art is far feebler than necessity.

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Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

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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.

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Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia...a true masterpiece!

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Tags : Al Michaels Quotes , Art Quotes , Pieces Quotes

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Life Quotes , Art Quotes

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Art Quotes , Poetry Quotes

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Life Quotes , Art Quotes

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Creativity Quotes

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

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Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

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