Quotes on Art

The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

Is this a dagger which I see before me, _x000D_ _x000D_ The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. _x000D_ _x000D_ I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. _x000D_ _x000D_ Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible _x000D_ _x000D_ To feeling as to sight? or art thou but _x000D_ _x000D_ A dagger of the mind, a false creation, _x000D_ _x000D_ Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.