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Art Quotes by Alexander Pope
- I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as…
- From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
- To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,…
- How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all…
- Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art…
- That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in…
- Most authors steal their works, or buy.
- Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
- So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call…
- Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
- Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd…
- Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments…
- Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
- True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
- So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
- All nature is but art unknown to thee.
- A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
- One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
- All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal…
- To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes