Art Quotes — page 4

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration …

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers From their own Music when they stray.

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly; books and colleges at second-hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon, of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars: actual contact with the elements, sympathy …

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory, And makes a constant sacrament of praise.

Music, the mosaic of the air.

Though Frank Shallard might have come to admire pictures, great music, civilized furniture, he had been trained to regard them as worldly, and to content himself with art which 'presented a message,' to regard 'Les Miserables' as superior …

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

We would walk with Thee when Thou smitest us, and we would walk with Thee when Thou smilest upon us; for, smiling or smiting, it is in love. We take chastisement because we are sons, and Thou art Father. O grant that we may never feel Thy …

Gems and jewels let them heap— Wax sumptuous as the Sophi: For me, to grapple from Art’s deep One dripping trophy!

Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.

The essence of MAGICK is simple enough in all conscience. It is not otherwise with the art of government.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

The course of Nature is the art of God.

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds, or the written music of water written in river-lines?

What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only …

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term "Art," I should call it "the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul." The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man …

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

One good Art's better than a thousand bad.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their …

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.