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Art Quotes by Walter Pater
- Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
- All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
- And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had…
- Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms,…
- To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but…
- One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the…
- Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what…
- In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the…
- A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or…
- For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments'…
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- 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