Quotes About Art

everything made by man's hands has a form, which must be either beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, and helps her; ugly if it is discordant with Nature, and thwarts her; it cannot be indifferent...

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course. —Voltaire

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.

If instead of just clay I could take all the prettiest things Like a rainbow, Or clouds or the way a bird sings, Maybe then, dearest Mommy, If I put them all together, I could really make a sculpture of you.

Johannes Meintjes… is one of the more articulate South Africans of his generation. A prolific painter, he is also a fluent author in both English and Afrikaans. With unresting curiosity about South African national and regional history, he seems blessedly free from political or racial bias, and when he writes of nations or persons in conflict is alert to what is good or bad on both sides.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Until the first antibiotics, medicine remained the oldest art. It had yet to become, in Thomas's words, the "youngest science.

To deny sex is to deny life. To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and art together is to add to oneself, to be positive instead of negative. Erotic cinema . . . reveals us to ourselves with increasing artistry.

When we teach tactics in the opposite order, that is, the mechanics ahead of the thinking, too often we produce, instead of soldiers, structured mechanics who find it difficult to think without rules. The art of war has no traffic with rules. Yet I have often seen students reject their best tactical ideas because they could not fit them into the format.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

When the Mind is correct, the brush will be also.

The other schools get along with this as a performance art, as a method of making a living, as a colorful decoration, or as a means of forcing flowers to bloom. Yet, can it be the True Way if it has been made into a saleable item?

O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear.

And smooth as monumental alabaster.

Never yet did insurrection wantSuch water-colors to impaint his cause.

Nature's above art in that respect.

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.

I want that glib and oily artTo speak and purpose not.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink.

My nature is subdu'dTo what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones.

Be thou the tenth Muse.