Al Alvarez Quotes, Art Quotes, Imagination Quotes

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Wise Quotes , Art Quotes

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

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The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.

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Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Compassion Quotes

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Art Quotes , Pain Quotes

With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes