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Artful Quotes (page 133)

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems Anna Garlin Spencer
Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything. Kurt Vonnegut
H. G. Wells quote: "This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to..."
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. H. G. Wells
Oscar Wilde quote: "For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as..."
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. Oscar Wilde
A canon is a guarded catalogue of that speech, music and art which houses inside us, which is irrevocably familiar to our homecomings. And this will include, if honestly arrived at and declared (even if solely to oneself), all manner of ephemera, trivial, and possibly mendacious matter…No manor woman need justify his personal anthology, his canonic welcomes. Love does not argue its necessities. George Steiner
Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again. Tom Robbins
Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes, The art of syren choirs; Hush the seductive voice that floats Across the trembling wires. Music's ethereal power was given Not to dissolve our clay, But draw Promethean beams from heaven To purge the dross away. John Henry Newman
Henri Matisse quote: "The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity..."
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. Henri Matisse
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. Stephen King
For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere.(on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6) John Calvin
Ray Bradbury quote: "We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe"
We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe Ray Bradbury
In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable. Robert Hughes
Tom Robbins quote: "On the haunted staircase of life, art is the only step that..."
On the haunted staircase of life, art is the only step that doesn't creak. Tom Robbins
Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities,... then they only complicate and encumber life. Anton Chekhov
Malcolm Forbes quote: "To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of..."
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness. Malcolm Forbes

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