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Letter "A" » Art
«People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.»
Author: Claude Monet
| About:
Art,
Love,
Understanding
| Keywords:
discuss, discusses, my art, pretend
«Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.»
Author: Marianne Moore
(Poet)
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Poetry
| Keywords:
Art of, creating, gardens, imaginary, imaginary being, poetry, the art, toads
«Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.»
Author: Senator John Kerry
(Senator)
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Optimism,
Politics,
Vision
| Keywords:
edges, tinkering, tinkers
«Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| About:
Art,
Poetry
| Keywords:
arranges, delightfully, excite, powerfully, selects, symbols
«Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Art,
Poetry
| Keywords:
lending, shadows, substantiating
«People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.»
«Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.»
«Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Business,
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
noses, preventing, properly, sticking
«Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
art, contact, degree, derive, deriving, do work, experience, feelings, from, furnish, furnished with, furnishing, greatest, happy, Having, intensities, intensity, in degree, other, out of work, personally, pleasure, pleasuring, realms, such, such as, The Greatest, to that degree, works, work over, work through, work up
«Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.»
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