Art Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of…

— Evelyn Waugh

“The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism,…

— Chris Elliott

“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if only quasi-informed,…

— Kay S. Hymowitz

“Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and from then on, that which…

— Daniel D. Victor

“We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family members, and…

— Joshua Ferris

“Love of ruins for an architect, he claimed, was quite natural, at least after a long career.”

— Josip Novakovich

“Many 18th- and 19th-century artists rejected, criticized, or ignored the Industrial Revolution. Instead of uplifting man, industry seemed to demoralize and dehumanize him. Men,…

— Jesse Bryant Wilder

“and all was healed and made good, and the houses were filled with men and women and the laughter of children, and no window…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“This is what great masterpieces must feel like on museum walls—like sighing, like climbing out of their rigidly stretched frames, and falling, boneless, into…

— Leylah Attar

“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.”

— Bauvard

“and paint, to take care of my father, to feel that I belonged, to do something useful and good with my time. But most…

— Julianne Donaldson

“Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is…

— Helon Habila