Quotes About Human

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.

Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.

Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn't speak language that's acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.

Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower, which must be cautiously cared forand protected, from the harsh elementsof "human weather.

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

Every human being has the potential for greatness.