Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Ars est celare artem—It is the perfection of art to conceal art. Ovid.

Ars est sine arte, cujus principium est mentiri, medium laborare, et finis mendicare—It is an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. Applied originally to the pursuits of the Alchemists.

Ars longa, vita brevis—Art is long, life is short. 30

Ars varia vulpis, ast una echino maxima—The fox has many tricks; the hedgehog only one, and that greatest of all. Pr.

Art does not represent things falsely, but truly as they appear to mankind. Ruskin.

Arte magistra—By the aid of art. Virg.

Art is a jealous mistress. Emerson.

Art is long and time is fleeting, / And our 35 hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like muffled drums, are beating / Funeral marches to the grave. Longfellow.

Art is noble, but the sanctuary of the human soul is nobler still. W. Winter.

Art is not the bread indeed, but it is the wine of life. Jean Paul.