William Wordsworth Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Art Quotes

With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!

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Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve Martin's Born Standing Up, all about how he developed his career and his creativity as a comedian. Lots of what he talks about is relevant to anyone in the creative arts - you find yourself, your voice, your technique and then maybe luck calls.

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Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

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Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

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Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

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Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

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Be where your enemy is not.

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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

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