Art Quote by Max Beerbohm Download Open image “The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends…” — Max Beerbohm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art Free Ends Free Loose ends Past Past Work Time Wise Work Work Art Works of art
The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion. — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined in the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes. — Adele Parks Copy Share Image
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“As she sat here in the bay-window of her room, she was not reviewing the splendid pageant of her past. She was a young… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion. — Max Beerbohm 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
