Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Richard Dawkins

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Orhan Pamuk

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

Nick Frost

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Ansel Adams

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

Alla Nazimova

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Bruno Bettelheim

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Barry Eisler

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracian

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Charles Baudelaire

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

Cyril Connolly

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

Cheech Marin

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

Daniel Clowes

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Edgar Degas