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

Art is simply a bringing into relief of the obscure thought of Nature. Amiel.

Art is the mediatrix of the unspeakable. Goethe.

Art is the path of the creator to his work. 40 Emerson.

Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Hare.

Artists are of three classes: those who perceive and pursue the good, and leave the evil; those who perceive and pursue the good and evil together, the whole thing as it verily is; and those who perceive and pursue the evil, and leave the good. Ruskin.

Artium magister—Master of arts.

Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. Dryden.

Art may make a suit of clothes, but Nature 45 must produce a man. Hume.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. Hazlitt.

Art must not be a superficial talent, but must begin further back in man. Emerson.