"Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize……" — Arthur Symons
"Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived."
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21 Quotes by Arthur Symons
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As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in…
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How…
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It is in their eyes that their magic resides.
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Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.
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Night, a more perfect day.
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Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in…
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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig…
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And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover…
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He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is…
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My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.
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A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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