The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
– Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.
– Bertrand Russell
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
– Hilton Kramer
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
– Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.
– Michael Talbot
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides
– Arthur Schnabel
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!
– Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.
– Francois Delsarte
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be
– Henry James
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.
– Eric Hoffer
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
– Edward R. Murrow
The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
– James Arthur Baldwin
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
– James Baldwin
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
– Dorothy Nevill
The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.
– Tom Carter
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
– Oscar Wilde
The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.
– Jean Anouilh
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
– Michelangelo Buonarroti
