Quotes
Quotes about Art
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.
Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, To comfort thee, though thou art banished.
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my timeâthis art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised. - Isaac D'Israeli,
With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness married to thy stronger state Makes with me thy strength to communicate. If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss; Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
