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Art Quotes by Terry Eagleton
- Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.
- Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around…
- The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those…
- Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility.…
More Art Quotes
- . . . 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
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- 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