Herman Melville Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Lying, White

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.613, Northwestern University Press

• Art is the objectification of feeling.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Art, Feelings

  "Mind, An Essay on Human Feeling,". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4, 1967.

• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

• All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Money, Yield

  Herman Melville (1998). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, Oxford University Press, USA

• The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Political, Dreamer

  Herman Melville (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.409, Northwestern University Press

• Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

  Herman Melville

  Beautiful, Art, Smoking

• Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Wine, Foe

  Herman Melville (2015). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville”, p.201, 谷月社

• Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

  Herman Melville

  Art, Writing, Giving

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.428

• In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Art, Hate

  Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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