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Art Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
- It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but…
- The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
- The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
- We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's…
- It is a great art to saunter !
- If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular…
- The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
- Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural…
- I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking…
- How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell…
- We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion…
- A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never…
- We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of…
- Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and…
- I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east…
- Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,…
- The highest condition of art is artlessness.
- It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is…
- To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
- A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of…
- To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.
- The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a uniform…
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- 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