Alexander Pope Quotes, Love Quotes, Art Quotes

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

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The proper school to learn art is not life but art

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

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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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Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

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If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.

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Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.

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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

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And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

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if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

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God made thee good as thou art beautiful.

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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

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China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

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