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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if...
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the...
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a...
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Source: In...
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing...
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, ...
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry,...
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often...
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do...
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of...
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Source: Art, ch. 1,...
But I owe something to Vincent [Van Gogh], and that is . . . the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting....
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of...
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Source: In Pathos of Distance, by...
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone,...
Much has been written about her enemies. She picked them with care, and God knows they deserved...
Good swiping is an art in itself.
Source: In 21st Century Dictionary of Quotations,...
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?