Art Quote by Eli Siegel

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been…

— Jerry Saltz

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

— Andre Breton

One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife…

— Eli Siegel

“The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...

— Winston Churchill

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them…

— Clive James

The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's…

— Chad Harbach

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

— Francois Fenelon

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry…

— Robert Adam

The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is…

— Jane Austen

I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate…

— Frances Wright