Saint Augustine Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Art, Passion

• An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Art, Kings

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

• Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Selfish, Book

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The Confessions”, p.198, New City Press

• Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Prayer, Desire

• Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Giving, Worship

• There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Happy Life, Joy

  Saint Augustine (2009). “The Confessions of St. Augustine”, p.284, The Floating Press

• Poetry is devil's wine.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Philosophy, Wine

• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Catholic, Empty

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.4272, Aeterna Press

• What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Ships, Emperor

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

• Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Art, Men

• What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, God, Art

  Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.4, Open Road Media

• Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Contentment, Ifs

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