Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Men Quotes

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

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It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

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For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Art Quotes , Work Quotes

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

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No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

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A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

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Art is the escape from personality.

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A good half of the art of living is resilience.

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Art is the child of Nature.

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The artist...is the voice of the people.

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

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