Art Quote by William Bolitho Download Open image ““None can imitate life without the intermediary of art.”” — William Bolitho ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Life
“Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates art far… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.” — Richard Matturro Copy Share Image
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? I believe life imitates art the imitates life.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
“To a Bonaparte it represents what Jacob Astor meant when he said, “The first hundred thousand dollars are the most difficult.” It is the… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“All these outposts were broken in,and that which in other histories would have counted as three victories did not delay the progress of Charles… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility of God… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the married, supported… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“Like most people of his temperament, though sociable, he (Napolean) disliked company in which he would have to appear merely as one of the… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as… — William Bolitho Copy Share
“Napoleon fell into the situation that is the misery of many men of action, and lost the power of enjoying things directly, by himself. It is a weakness, a gustatory impotence which is felt the whole length of the moral ladder, from the saint to the voyeur. It is the secret inspiration of much philanthropy and of much vice; shared… — William Bolitho Copy Share
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 water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“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 who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“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
