Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Proverb, Spanish
Proverb, Spanish
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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
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Arts Quotations Click  The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.Baldwin, James Arthur I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterises prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.Bellow, Saul Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you doBowen, Elizabeth Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.Brooks, Phillips Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himselfButler, Samuel Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewilderedCapp, Al I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.Cervantes, Miguel de Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anythingDelacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmostDinesen, Isak Give a man a pipe he can smoke, Give a man a book he can read, And his home is bright with a calm delight, Though the room be poor indeedDunhill, Alfred The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?Dylan, Bob Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sakeForster, Edward Morgan Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.Fuller, Sarah Margaret Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the betterGide, André A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soulGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von « Previous Page | Next Page » |
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