Art Quote by Lord Acton Download Open image “Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.” — Lord Acton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artistic Character Evil Good and evil Lying Together Unity Wickedness
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Good and evil exist and can be meaningfully distinguished from each other by simple criteria. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means… — Lord Acton 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
