Quotes of: Wild-horses Keyword

Art must take reality by surprise.

Francoise Sagan

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

Herbert Read

A picture is a poem without words.

Horace

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Isaac Asimov

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

James Huneker

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

Joyce Carol Oates

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Louis Dudek

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

Lafcadio Hearn

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

Maurice Sendak

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Nicolas Chamfort

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Nikki Giovanni

Art lies by its own artifice.

Ovid

The core of my writing is not art but truth.

Philip K. Dick

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

Peter Shaffer

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Rabindranath Tagore

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

Sterling Hayden