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Artful Quotes (page 72)

The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; Increased demand to live off the state. Edward Gibbon
Maya Angelou quote: "Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the..."
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. Maya Angelou
William Shakespeare quote: "O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art. Lawful as..."
O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art. Lawful as eating. William Shakespeare
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant. Clive Barker
Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression. Paulo Coelho
Julian Barnes quote: "Reading is a majority skill but a minority art."
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Julian Barnes
Randall Jarrell quote: "It's ugly, but is it art?"
It's ugly, but is it art? Randall Jarrell
Part came from Lane, and part from D. H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to express my deep abhorrence. If I caught anyone preferring Art. To Life and Love and being Pure-in-heart. I lived with crooks but seldom was molested; The Pure-in-heart can never be arrested. W. H. Auden
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer? that is composition. Robert Henri
Neil Gaiman quote: "Where does contagion end and art begin?"
Where does contagion end and art begin? Neil Gaiman
Salvador Dali quote: "This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art."
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. Salvador Dali
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor. Thomas Jefferson
The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day--a way of relating. Joyce Carol Oates
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry. Julian Barnes
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky. Gustave Flaubert

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