- He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
- Arthur Balfour on Art
- He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Art
- He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
- William Blake on Art
- History develops, art stands still.
- E. M. Forster on Art
- History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
- William Morris on Art
- History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
- Joseph Conrad on Art
- Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
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