Quotes about art
art ignorance enemy
Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance . Ben Jonson
art fighting winning
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back. Ben Jonson
art men monsters
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something. Ben Jonson
art lying sleep
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both. Ben Jonson
art men judging
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art. Ben Jonson
art style matter
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it. Ben Jonson
art poverty being-true
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. Ben Jonson
art lying book
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give . Ben Jonson
art mean winning
Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well. Bas Rutten
art stuff tvs
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not. Bas Rutten
artist able albums
A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album. Eddie Van Halen
art thinking may
Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest. Eddie Vedder
artist lists kind
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment. Eddie Vedder
art pain light
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. Eddie Vedder
art reading writing
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot. Ed McBain
art gains martial-arts
Gain confidence and you banish fear. Ed Parker
art causes happens
The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen. Ed Parker
art men students
The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor. Ed Parker
art humility self
Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo Ed Parker
art forever mind
I am not going to show you my art. I am going to share it with you. If I show it to you it becomes an exhibition, and in time it will be pushed so far into the back of your mind that it will be lost. But by sharing it with you, you will not only retain it forever, but I too will improve. Ed Parker
art ships size
Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it. Ed Parker
art believe humble
The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there. Ed Parker
art your-loss losing
The art of losing isn't hard to master. Elizabeth Bishop
art delicate-things roaring
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world? Elizabeth Bishop
art self useless
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration. Elizabeth Bishop
art doors keys
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Elizabeth Bishop
art cutting loss
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Elizabeth Bishop
art children air
I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again. Elizabeth Bowen
art home theatre
Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist. Elizabeth Bowen
art crafts novel
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft ... Elizabeth Bowen
artist ornaments unthinkable
... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. Elizabeth Bowen
art hurt memorable
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. Elizabeth Bowen
art feelings literature
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. Elizabeth Bowen