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Great Art Quotes (page 3)

Elizabeth Gaskell quote: "I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit..."
I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art. Elizabeth Gaskell
The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone. C. S. Lewis
Federico Garcia Lorca quote: "At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy."
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy. Federico Garcia Lorca
Any great art work? revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. Leonard Bernstein
John Ruskin quote: "All great art is praise."
All great art is praise. John Ruskin
Ok now--I don't read "all the time." Remember, that these ratings are over quite a while. I'll try to put in some comments over what I've been reading lately. I like Vince Flynn's spy/thrillers. Also, check out Umberto Eco's one "On Beauty"--not the precise title, but great art/comments. Also, Sophie's World if you like a pretty unusual story with philosophy mixed in. Umberto Eco
Herman Melville quote: "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one..."
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Herman Melville
Caroline Gordon quote: "We do not judge great art. It judges us."
We do not judge great art. It judges us. Caroline Gordon
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. Henry Louis Gates
Ezra Pound quote: "All great art is born of the metropolis."
All great art is born of the metropolis. Ezra Pound
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. Horace
I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. Jean Pigozzi
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. Richard Holloway
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. Ralph A. Cram
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent. Charlton Heston

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