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Art Quotes by James Joyce
- A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed…
- The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring…
- It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
- I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe,…
- The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
- Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
- The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas.…
- To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
- An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedythe feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the…
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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
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- 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