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  • Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Art Quotes , Jewels Quotes
  • In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Art Quotes , Fire Quotes
  • I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Art Quotes , Men Quotes