Quotes About Art

The trouble with serenity is that it can turn. The trees seem to lose their souls and look again like painted scenery.

Space is never empty. Emotions have vectors and velocity. You can crush a person from a distance. Sometimes the first weapon is the act or art of pulling away.

Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.

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It is only obvious that teaching is a very special art, sharing withonly two other arts-argriculture and medicin-an exceptionally important characteristic.

The art of reading, in short, includes all of the same skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery: keenness of observation, readily available memory, range of imagination, and, of course, an intellect trained in analysis and reflection.

The beauty of any work of art is related to the pleasure it gives us when we know it well.

a arte de ler é a técnica de apanhar qualquer tipo de comunicação.

People point to a highly original painter or sculptor and say, "He isn't following rules. He's doing something entirely original, something that has never been done before, something for which there are no rules." But they fail to see

Thus we can roughly define what we mean by the art of reading as follows: the process whereby a mind, with nothing to operate on but the symbols of the readable matter, and with no help from outside,I elevates itself by the power of its own operations. The mind passes from understanding less to understanding more. The skilled operations that cause this to happen are the various acts that constitute the art of reading.

En asuntos de arte la modestia no es una virtud.

It astonished me later to find how the readers found Warrender's war record so convincing and full when I had said so little – one real war veteran of Burma wrote to say how realistic he found it – but since then I've come to learn for myself how little one needs, in the art of writing, to convey the lot, and how a lot of words, on the other hand, can convey so little.

Mona Lisa in her prime smiled in steady composure even though she had just come from the dentist and her lower jaw was swollen.

Pictures inside frames,' said Dave. 'That's really all there is to it/ said Tom...;

There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved spinsterhood with voyages of discovery into new ideas and energetic practices in art and social welfare, education or religion.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. THOREAU, Walden

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!

You're a poet, too, you know. And when you're a poet you can cry for everything' (58).

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody—it's a caress, I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

The art of fiction, like the art of stage magicians, is one of directing the audience's attention to what you want them to see.

Behind us hung a Correggio St. Sebastian with the habitual Buchmanite expression on his face. Awful tripe, said Uncle Matthew. Fella wouldn't be grinning, he'd be dead with all those arrows in him.

Friendship is something to be built up carefully, by people with leisure, it is an art, nature does not enter into it.

There's only a yard of stuff in it, worth a pound if that, I went on, horrified by the waste of money. And how many yards of canvas in a Fragonard? And how much do planks of wood cost, or the skin of a darling goat before some clever person turns them into commodes and morocco? Art is more than yards, just as one is more than flesh and bones.