Mark Twain Quotes About Art

• I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Horse, Ordinary

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.181, Courier Corporation

• The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Fire, Virtue

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.496, Courier Corporation

• Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Honesty, Lost

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

• To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Writing, Together

  Mark Twain (2016). “The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories”, p.179, Xist Publishing

• Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Book, Beer

  "Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World". Volume II,

• ...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Men, Car

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.149, Courier Corporation

• To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Flattery, Compliment

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

• If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Stars, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.215, Courier Corporation

• It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

  Mark Twain

  Art, People, Ignorant

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.13, Courier Corporation

• There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Philosophy, Animal

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.291, Createspace Independent Pub

• Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

  Mark Twain

  Art, Inspiration, Home

• I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'The Innocents Abroad' (1869) ch. 27.

• Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Art, Lying

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

• Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Two, Space

  Mark Twain (2014). “Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses”, p.4, The Floating Press

• The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Difficult, Prophecy

  Andrew Leckey, Mark Twain (2001). “The Lack of Money is the Root of All Evil: Mark Twain's Timeless Advice on Money and Wealth for Today's Investor”

• As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

  Mark Twain

  Art, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.57, 谷月社

• A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Attitude, Expression

  Mark Twain (1876). “Mississippi Writings”, p.488, Library of America

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