"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
― Edmund Burke
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Art
― Edmund Burke
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- "Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
- "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
- "Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
More In Art
- "We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."― Henry James
- "Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don’t seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist’s work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there’s something wrong with the art."― Jerry Saltz
- "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation."― Samuel Butler