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In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight. - Henry Watton It was Homer who gave laws to the artist. - Francis D.D. Wayland, The Iliad and the Bible A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. - Simone Weil The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences. - William Whewell Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought. - John Greenleaf Whittier, Raphael (st. 8) A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) All good art is an indiscretion. - Tennessee Williams Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce. - Robert Aris Willmott Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection. - Robert Aris Willmott If you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. - Frank Lloyd Wright Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. - William Butler Yeats Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa Displaying page 10 of 10 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10]
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