Agatha Christie Quotes, Art Quotes, Favors Quotes

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Art Quotes , Favors Quotes

There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Art Quotes , Thinking Quotes

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Art Quotes , Military Quotes

It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ]. I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aisha Hinds Quotes , Art Quotes , New York Quotes

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Art Quotes , Work Quotes

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Work Quotes

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Art Quotes , Secret Quotes

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Faith Quotes , Art Quotes

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Art Quotes , Style Quotes

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Reality Quotes

To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Running Quotes , Art Quotes

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Life Quotes , Art Quotes

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Art Quotes , Catholic Quotes

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Art Quotes , Mind Quotes

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Art Quotes , Love Is Quotes

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Death Quotes , Art Quotes