Virginia Woolf Quotes, Art Quotes, Silence Quotes

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Real Quotes

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

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O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

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High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Art Quotes , Achievement Quotes

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dream Quotes , Art Quotes

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , Giving Up Quotes

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Art Quotes , Years Quotes

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes

No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Art Quotes , Horse Quotes

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Struggle Quotes

Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Art Quotes , Black History Quotes

Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Art Quotes , School Quotes

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Art Quotes

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Life Quotes , Art Quotes

O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

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