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  • The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Art Quotes , Book Quotes
  • It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Art Quotes , Real Quotes
  • Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Life Quotes , Art Quotes
  • In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Art Quotes , Men 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
  • It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Education Quotes , Art Quotes
  • You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dream Quotes , Art Quotes
  • The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Military Quotes
  • I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Art Quotes , Italian Quotes