1
And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.
Henry V. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 21.
2
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
Henry V. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 3.
3
For they are yet but ear-kissing arguments.
King Lear. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 9.
4
She hath prosperous art
When she will play with reason and discourse,
And well she can persuade.
Measure for Measure. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 189.
5
Agreed to differ.
6
Ah, don't say that you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde—
The Critic as an Artist. Pt. II. Also in
Lady Windermere's Fan. Act
II. Founded on a saying of
Phocion.
8
No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.
Quoted by Bismarck. Possibly a phrase of Frederick the Great.
(See also Bismarck, under War)
9
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.
10
It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
11
Etenim omnes artes, quæ ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur.
All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connected as it were by some relationship.
Cicero—
Oratio Pro Licinio Archia. I.
12
L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,
Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;
Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi è nipote.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
13
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
14
All passes, Art alone
Enduring stays to us;
The Bust out-lasts the throne,—
The coin, Tiberius.
(See also Gautier and quotations under Time)
15
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
16
L'Art supreme
Seule a l'eternité
Et le buste
Survit la cité
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
(See also Dobson)
17
As all Nature's thousand changes
But one changeless God proclaim;
So in Art's wide kingdom ranges
One sole meaning still the same:
This is Truth, eternal Reason,
Which from Beauty takes its dress,
And serene through time and season
Stands for aye in loveliness.
Goethe—
Wilhelm Meister's Travels. Ch. XIV. (Ch.III. 128 of Carlyle's Ed.)
18
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve us in every part,
His pencil our faces, his manners our heart.
19
<poem>The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
20
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.
21
Ars longa, vita brevis est.
Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
Hippocrates—Aphorismi. I. Nobilissimus Medicus. Translated from the Greek. Goethe—Wilhelm Meister VII. 9.
(See also Seneca, and quotations under Life, Time)
