Art Quote by William Shakespeare

“first produce, and doth still establish and uphold the same. When we reflect upon ourselves, let us consider that we are not a mere…

— Henry Scougal

“...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“I shall draw forth thy bones one by one ere I send thee to the devil. So that for all time thy shapeless body…

— Steven Brust

“No, thou art come too late, Empedocles! And the world hath the day, and must break thee, Not thou the world. With men thou…

— Matthew Arnold

“I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back, the passage went. He stumbled beneath the weight,…

— Brandon Sanderson

“The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.”

— Lao Tzu

“...for neither do the spirits damned Lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth which glory excites, Or…

— John Milton

“But figure his thought, when Death is now clutching at his own heart-strings, unlooked for, inexorable! Yes, poor Louis, Death has found thee. No…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Ah me! think, sister, how our father perished, amid hate and scorn, when sins bared by his own search had moved him to strike…

— Sophocles

“Then said the giant, "Thou practices the craft of a kidnapper. Thou gatherest up woman and children and carriest them into a strange country,…

— John Bunyan

“You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, And one…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“My Lord, you own wisdom has taught me to aspire to One even more great, more beautiful, and more closely approximate to perfection than…

— Edwin A. Abbott