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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating read more
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its read more
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their
significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's
uses.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.