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Art Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon…
- In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate…
- No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
- Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from…
- A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
- All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection,…
- Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
- I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
- Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang…
- All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the…
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