T. S. Eliot Quotes, Art Quotes, Art Is Quotes

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Art Quotes , Color Quotes

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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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

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

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Art is the escape from personality.

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All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

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For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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