Art Quote by Christopher Brookmyre Download Open image ““Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic?”” — Christopher Brookmyre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Beauty
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world, I could… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.” — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both,and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise called… — Norhtrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.” — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“He spent a very uncomfortable few moments trying to remember his prepared position for explaining to God that he had nonetheless been right not… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“... when they hear hooves they look for zebras instead of horses” — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“He checks the horns. They're small: not truncated like Hellboy's, but wee, budding, trainer-bra efforts. Definitely not the thing that killed Dazza. In demon… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“You're with Rapier squad. Mopping-up detail, under Sergeant Gortoss." He gestured along the corridor in the opposite direction from where Ross had just come.… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“Parlabane found the word 'pro-active' enormously useful, as it immediately exposed the speaker as an irredeemable arsehole, whatever previous impression might have been given.… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“It’s that ambient dance pish that Parlabane always hears at trendy gatherings but which no bastard would ever choose to listen to for their… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“Well, are you not going to give the man a round of applause?" he asked. "I mean, that was fucking amazing, didn't you think?… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“Is it colour?’ ‘Oh yes.’ ‘You don’t let me down.You are my ambassador to pr0n, man.” — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
