Josiah Gilbert Holland: The temple of art is built of words . Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows , borrowing all

The temple of art is built of words . Painting and sculpture and music are but t — Josiah Gilbert Holland

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

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The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be — Anton Chekhov
Schwer ist die Kunst, vergänglich ist ihr Preis. — Art is difficult
What is art but the denial of life? — Fernando Pessoa
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth . — Theodor Adorno
Did man compute Existence by enjoyment, and count o'er Such hours 'gainst years — Lord Byron
It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been righ — Francis Bacon
In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that — Fernando Pessoa
To be understood is to prostitute yourself. — Fernando Pessoa
It's such a little thing to weep , So short a thing to sigh ; And yet by trades — Emily Dickinson
Sê plural como o universo! — Fernando Pessoa
Lauriger Horatius Quam dixisti verum; Fugit euro citius Tempus edax rerum. — Laurel crowned Horatius True
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scand — George Bernard Shaw