Quotes about Art, page 8

I was very interested in art and art history. I probably would have pursued that somehow working in a gallery or an auction house.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about art

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Quote by Paracelsus about art

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Quote by Paracelsus about art

Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art

Quote by Paracelsus about art

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Quote by Paracelsus about art

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising.

Quote by Sarah Jessica Parker about art

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Quote by Francis Parkman about art

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

Quote by Estelle Parsons about art

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

Quote by Andy Partridge about art

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them, no art can keep or acquire them.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about art

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about art

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Quote by Walter Pater about art

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Quote by Walter Pater about art

Art and poetry, philosophy and the religious life, and that other life of refined pleasure and action in the conspicuous places of the world, are each of them confined to its own circle of ideas, and those who prosecute either of them are...

Quote by Walter Pater about art

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Quote by Walter Pater about art

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

Quote by Walter Pater about art

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Quote by Walter Pater about art

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has...

Quote by Walter Pater about art

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

Quote by Mandy Patinkin about art

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Quote by Luciano Pavarotti about art