“When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.”
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“Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.”
“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”
“To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.”
“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”
“Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.”
“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”
“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.”
“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.”
“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”
“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”
“Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.”
“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”
“Art is anything you can get away with.”
“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”
“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”