The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, All Things Common.
The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, All Things Common.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason
Image of weakness, art thou but a Worm?
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
When Nations grow Old, The Arts grow Cold And Commerce settles on every Tree.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories