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Art Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in…
- We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and…
- To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not…
- Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor…
- If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us…
- Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the…
- Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the…
- Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
- The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he…
- Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
- Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation...
- Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
- Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art,…
- Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his…
- The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a…
- It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
- "But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've…
- Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the…
- The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one…
- People travel for the same reason they collect works of art: because the best people do it
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov