art (n.)
- abstractionism
- acuteness
- address
- adroitness
- alphabet
- area
- arena
- artfulness
- artifice
- artistry
- astuteness
- baroque
- blind
- blueprint
- business
- calling
- capability
- career
- careerism
- characterization
- chart
- chicanery
- choreography
- classicalism
- classicism
- cleverness
- competence
- concern
- conspiracy
- constructivism
- contrivance
- conventionalism
- coup
- craft
- craftiness
- cubism
- cunning
- deceit
- delineation
- demonstration
- depiction
- design
- device
- dexterity
- diagram
- discipline
- dodge
- domain
- drama
- drawing
- eclectic
- exemplification
- existentialism
- expedient
- expertise
- expressionism
- feel
- feint
- fetch
- field
- figuration
- finesse
- flair
- foxiness
- futurism
- gambit
- game
- gamesmanship
- gimmick
- guile
- handicraft
- handiness
- hang
- hieroglyphic
- iconography
- idealism
- ideogram
- illustration
- imagery
- imaging
- impressionism
- ingeniousness
- insidiousness
- intrigue
- intuitionism
- inventiveness
- jugglery
- knack
- knavery
- know-how
- letter
- lifework
- limning
- line
- logogram
- logograph
- maneuver
- map
- mechanics
- mechanism
- method
- metier
- mission
- modernism
- move
- mystery
- mysticism
- naturalism
- neoclassicism
- notation
- number
- occupation
- ology
- one-upmanship
- photomontage
- plan
- plot
- ploy
- pointillism
- portraiture
- portrayal
- practice
- presentment
- primitivism
- printing
- profession
- proficiency
- projection
- province
- purism
- pursuit
- racket
- readiness
- realism
- realization
- rendering
- rendition
- representation
- resourcefulness
- romanticism
- ruse
- savvy
- schema
- scheme
- science
- score
- script
- sharpness
- shift
- shiftiness
- shrewdness
- skill
- sleight
- slipperiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- sophistry
- specialization
- specialty
- sphere
- stealth
- stealthiness
- stratagem
- strategy
- study
- subterfuge
- subtlety
- suppleness
- suprematism
- surrealism
- syllabary
- symbol
- symbolism
- tablature
- tactic
- talent
- technic
- technics
- technique
- technology
- touch
- trade
- traditionalism
- trick
- trickery
- trickiness
- unism
- virtu
- vocation
- walk
- wariness
- way
- wile
- wiliness
- wit
- work
- writing
art (v.)
art (adv.)
art (adj.)
Th' adorning thee with so much art
Is but a barb'rous skill;
'T is like the pois'ning of a dart,
Too apt before to kill.
Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free,—
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the adulteries of art:
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
Art and part.
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
'T is not enough no harshness gives offence,—
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere.
His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.
You know who critics are?—the men who have failed in literature and art.
Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.
I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not.
It is the glory and good of Art
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth,—to mouths like mine, at least.
And as a bird each fond endearment tries
To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies,
He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay,
Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is—to die.
Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.—Richard Franck: Northern Memoirs (written in 1658, printed in 1694).
Life is short and the art long.
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Art is long, and time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still like muffled drums are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility,—
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot
The last and greatest art,—the art to blot.
And art made tongue-tied by authority.
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
In the battle off Cape St. Vincent, Nelson gave orders for boarding the "San Josef," exclaiming "Westminster Abbey, or victory!"
More matter, with less art.
Nature's above art in that respect.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.
By Themistocles alone, or with very few others, does this saying appear to be approved, which, though Alcaeus formerly had produced, many afterwards claimed: "Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans, make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls."—Ibid. vol. ii.
Nature is the art of God.
The course of Nature is the art of God.
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
Art preservative of all arts.
One science only will one genius fit:
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Behold on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.
E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot
The last and greatest art,—the art to blot.
There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face.
One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
