Art Quote by Lincoln Steffens Download Open image “Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.” — Lincoln Steffens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Art Like Artist Border Flowers Borders Civilization Course Civilization Culture Flower Flowers Gardening
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces… — Lincoln Steffens 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
