Art and literature

The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.

--J.Ruskin

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

--Ben Johnson


Nothing is really beautiful but truth.

--N.Boileau

Art is long, and time is fleeting.

--Longfellow

Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.

--Draxe

Quality is better than quantity.

--English Proverb

 

Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

--Willian Congrave

 

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.

--George Arnold

 

Brevity is the soul of wit.

--Shakespeare

 

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

--P.B.Shelley

 

Greatest genius often lies concealed.

--English Proverb

 

That is not good language which all understand not.

--Cervantes

 

A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.

--P.B.Shelley

 

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

--Lytton

 

Art lies in concealing art.

--Latin Proverb

 

The highest art is to conceal art.

--Bohn

 

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

--Cervantes

 

An artist lives anywhere.

--English Proverb

 

He painted a tiger but it turned out a dog.

--Chinese Proverb

 

Art improves nature.

--Rainoldes

 

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

--O.W. Holmes

 

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

--Einstein

 

Observation is the best teacher.

--English Proverb

 

Knowledge comes from experience alone.

--English Proverb

 

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

--James Ellis

 

Experience keeps a dear school.

--Franklin

 

A poet is born, not made.

--Fuller

 

No man ever yet became great by imitation.

--Samuel Johnson

 

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

--Sir Joshua Reynolds

 

The proper study of mankind is man.

--Peop