Art Quotes — page 38

You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence.

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. He must be an artist indeed who can, in any mode, produce a strict allegory that is not a weariness to the spirit.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, 19 The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,— And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies.

Under socialized industry progress in the industrial arts would be slower and would absorb a smaller proportion of individual interest, in order that progress in the finer intellectual and moral arts might be faster, and might engage a …

true art, springing fresh from Nature, must have in it, to live, much of the glance of an eye, much of the sound of a voice, much of the life of a life.

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.

I make the whole world answer to my art.

In such a picture the artist may depart from actual fact, from what actually was, so long as he does not exceed what might have been.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, Thou art noble and nude and antique.

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

Which when I saw, I made access To kiss that tempting nakedness But she forbade me with a wand Of myrtle she had in her hand And, chiding me, said: Hence, remove, Herrick, thou art too coarse to love.

Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

For now the poet can not die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

Subject.. ..no specific scene but many incidents. – The first word I spoke was Argula – it has no meaning. I was then five years old. Thus I called this painting 'Argula' as I was entering a new period closer to my instincts. …

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

every town should have an art gallery for the people. (September 11th)

Philosophy resembles poetry in being an art for enforcing meditation, for driving the mind inwards until it sinks into its Object.