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

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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

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I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

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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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Art lies by its own artifice.

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A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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Past art is subject to change.

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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

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Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

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Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of 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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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

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Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

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