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  • Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Milton Quotes , Art Quotes , Loss Quotes
  • For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Art Quotes , Science Quotes
  • Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes
  • In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Communication 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Life Quotes , Art Quotes
  • For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Quotes , Art Quotes