William Butler Yeats Quotes, Life Quotes, Art Quotes

In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

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O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

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Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

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Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

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Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

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Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say

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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.

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You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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Art lies in concealing art.

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Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

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