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Art Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by…
- Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
- Art is the child of Nature.
- Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
- From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
- The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
- Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
- The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward…
- O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
- Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.
- Music is the universal language of mankind.
- For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
- Resolve and thou art free.
- Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
- Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are…
- Art is long, and Time is fleeting.
- In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere
- Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
- Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
- Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
- Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- 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
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov