All WINSTON CHURCHILL Quotes about “Art”

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.”
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
“Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.”
“I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.”
“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.”
“Have not Manet and Monet, CÃ©zanne 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.”
“Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.”

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