Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

The beliefs and behaviour of the Restoration reflect the theories of society put forward by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, which was written in exile in Paris and published in 1651. Like many texts of the time, The Leviathan is an allegory. It recal...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer also contributed much to the formation of a standard English based on the dialect of the East Midlands region which was basically the dialect of ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require a reader imaginatively to construct their meaning. The most widespread of these figurative descriptions are what ar...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

It is the voice of everyday people, rather than of a self-conscious 'artist', that we hear in Caedmon's Hymn, and in such texts as Deor's Lament (also known simply as Deor) or The Seafarer. These reflect ordinary human experience and are told in the ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something back in return. Otherwise, we are constantly being disappointed." She moved her turquoise bracelet back and forth on...

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

For Hitschmann and Bergler, 'frigidity' had a single criterion: 'absence of the vaginal orgasm.' The standard was unqualified and absolute. A woman who did not enjoy intercourse: frigid. Women who derived sexual pleasure from acts other than intecour...

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

Bosnia's war had its visual hallmarks. Parks that were turned into cemeteries, refugee families piled onto horse-drawn carts, stop-or-die checkpoints with mines across the road. The most hideous hallmark of all was the blackened patch of ground in th...

Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War

We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realize the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as...

A Short History of Myth

Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking with the alignment that only comes after miles, ...

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

The fear of death haunted me for a year. I cried whenever anyone dropped a glass or broke a picture. But even then that passed, I was left with a sadness that couldn't be rubbed off. It wasn't that something had happened. It was worse: I'd become awa...

The History of Love

One hundred twenty-nine women with previously documented histories of sexual victimization in childhood were interviewed and asked detailed questions about their abuse histories to answer the question "Do people actually forget traumatic events such ...

Linda M. Williams

Bobby Jordan: Give me that. Bobby's Buddy: [passing Bobby a liquor bottle, then spotting Jack and Judy smoking a joint together] Hey, isn't that, that Stall faggot? Bobby Jordan: Yeah. Bobby's Buddy: You should go kick his ass. Bobby Jordan: I'm goin...

A History of Violence

Danny Vinyard: So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's always good to end a paper with...

American History X

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

Chapterhouse: Dune

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Art is long and life is short.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

But real life is not art.

The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

I don't want to be here when my latest work of accidental art is discovered.

Hush, Hush

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

Blue Nights