Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

William S. Burroughs

If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.

James L. Brooks

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Guillaume Apollinaire

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Adolf Loos

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Angelus Silesius

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Barbara Kingsolver

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Blaise Pascal

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Charles Baudelaire

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Daniel Bell

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Edgar Degas

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Eric Hoffer

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Ellen Key

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Edith Sitwell

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

George Henry Lewes

Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage.

Howard Schultz

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

John Keats

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

Julianne Moore

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

Jada Pinkett Smith

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

Kevin Smith