Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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• Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Art
  • Me
  • Best

• I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Art
  • Pretty
  • Always

• We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Work
  • Art
  • Ocean

• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Hand

• I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Art
  • Really
  • Get

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Science
  • Literature

• We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Brain
  • Training

• If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Great
  • Art
  • True

• The desire for truth so prominent in the quest of science, a reaching out of the spirit from its isolation to something beyond, a response to beauty in nature and art, an Inner Light of conviction and guidance-are these as much a part of our being as our sensitivity to sense impressions?

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Great
  • Art
  • Goddess

• When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.

  

  James Balog
  • Art
  • Together
  • Science

• You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.

  

  David Chase
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

  

  Doris Humphrey
  • Art
  • Words

• When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.

  

  Ashot Nadanian
  • Art
  • Winning
  • Trouble

• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Think
  • Marriage

• We were broadly criticized by some, especially in the Senate, ... We did not back up. We did not wave the white flag. We did not retreat. ... I think this is a good bill.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Up
  • Good
  • Senate

• The papists abuse this text, not only to the end they may commend feigned miracles, which they say are done at the graves of martyrs, but also that they may try and sell us their relics. Why, say thy, shall not the grave, or garment, or the touching of the bones of Peter have as much power to heal, as his shadow had?

  

  John Calvin
  • Done
  • Why
  • May

• Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Art
  • Genius
  • Appreciation