D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Art Quotes, Sunday Quotes

Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

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God made thee good as thou art beautiful.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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Presume not that I am the thing I was.

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The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

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There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

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No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

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