top of page
.png){kind=small}
"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
Standard
Customized
More
"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
Gift
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
Society
"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire."
People
"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
Art
"The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different."
Life
"There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you."
Values
"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
Land
"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."
Knowledge
"No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Help
"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."
Society
bottom of page