Art Quote by William Butler Yeats Download Open image “I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.” — William Butler Yeats ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Conscience Conscience Mankind Ethics Inferior Conscience Leave Arts Mankind Think Leave
I think culture and art tell you what the soul of a nation is, and if we continue to chip away at the arts… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
My own view is that the arts are neither superior nor inferior to anything else that goes on in schools. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
“One should embrace the artist's profession only after recognising in oneself an intense passion for Nature and the disposition to pursue it with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“being an artist: "And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate , I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what state of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine. — William Butler Yeats 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
