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Art Quotes by Christopher Ricks
- A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.
- The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell