Quotes of: Thou-art Keyword

I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that's the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about this women's art that was out there ignored, and it was going to be me. A...

Lucy R. Lippard

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

Carl Andre

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.

Karen DeCrow

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Ken Hill

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

Moby

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

Mary Schmich

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

Edward Hirsch

The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do, and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do.

Jet Li

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

The Rothko Chapel: Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

Confessions

Oh deep winter snow, pale executioner, thou who delights in a slow, torturous death.

The Falconer and The Wolf

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

King Lear

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

Leaves of Grass

Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-livered boy.

Macbeth

When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, Thou Saw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead

Poems

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

Omar Khayyam

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and dont's. 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever

Philip Pullman

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Ptahhotep

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

Saadi