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

• Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Art

• Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ethics
  • Physics
  • Relativity

• They'll forget all the rubbish when I've gone, and they'll remember the football. If only one person thinks I'm the best player in the world, that's good enough for me.

  

  George Best
  • World
  • Good
  • Remember

• They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • People
  • Love
  • New

• I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Expect

• 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