If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Art
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.
Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.
We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.
We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
I can’t bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
I learned the life of business, commerce – it's an art.
I learned the life of business, commerce – it’s an art.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one’s whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.
Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
It’s the first time that I’ve ever had an art show based on a film, but it’s a photography collage.