Winston Churchill Quotes About Art
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.
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I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.
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Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
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If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.
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Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.
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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due.
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Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.
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Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
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Winston Churchill
- Born: November 30, 1874
- Died: January 24, 1965
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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