#ture

Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati ↗

— Wahyu Aditya

#human #human-nature #mathematics #maths #science

What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III') ↗

— Paul Murray Kendall

#ricardian #art

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt ↗

— Christian Boltanski

#artist #death #sculpture #truth #art

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#nature #art

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have. ↗

— Thomas More

#government #human-nature #peace #rulers #war

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts-and-humanities #books #classics #creativity

Write what you know. ↗

— Mark Twain

#adventure

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#literature-writing #philosophy #art

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#reading #writing #art

Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings? ↗

— Gene Logsdon

#country-life #culture #farming #sustainability #art