Art Quote by Peter Shaffer Download Open image “Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.” — Peter Shaffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Goodness
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The trouble is if you dont spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.à — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“In an ultimate sense I cannot know what I do in this place - yet I do ultimate things. Essentially I cannot know what… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.” — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the… — Peter Shaffer 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
