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As all Nature's thousands changes
But one changeless God proclaim;
So in Art's wide kingdom ranges
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As all Nature's thousands changes
But one changeless God proclaim;
So in Art's wide kingdom ranges
One sole meaning still the same:
This is Truth, eternal Reason,
Which from Beauty takes its dress,
And serene through time and season
Stands aye in loveliness.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating read more
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]
Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; read more
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the read more
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make read more
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work
All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by read more
All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by some relationship.
[Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent
quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se
continentur.]
