"Art is the only clean thing on earth,…" — Joris-Karl Huysmans
"Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness."
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23 Quotes by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Joris-Karl Huysmans has 23 quotes on this site.
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The only really indecent people are the chaste.
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately…
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No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by…
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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love…
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we…
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Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it…
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There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.
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The modern painter…is an excellent couturier
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Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his…
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Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who…
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Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged…
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His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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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,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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