Artistic Quote by M. R. James

A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.

— Lord Chesterfield

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that…

— Teju Cole

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

“In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by a work…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Our art will probably be accused of tormented and decadent cerebralism. But we shall merely answer that we are, on the contrary, the primitives…

— Umberto Boccioni (Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto

A priest once said to me, 'Think of a priest going to the altar as you walk out on the stage.' I would hate…

— Stephen Hough

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment of courage,…

— Joseph Conrad

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

— Salman Rushdie

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith…

— John Ruskin

“Finally, when rising from meditative equipoise, with the awareness that all phenomena are illusionlike, one extensively engages in the accumulation of merit.”

— Karl Brunnholzl

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Hopeful visions touch possibilities that only exist in the gaze of the faithful.”

— Bryant McGill