Quote by Herman Melville
Art is the objectification of feeling. - Herman Melville

Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. – Herman Melville

Category:
Travel
Read Quote

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

Category:
Obedience
Read Quote

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

Category:
Age
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? – Paul Cezanne

Category:
Art

Things are beautiful if you love them. – Jean Anouilh

Category:
Art

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. – Marie Laurencin

Category:
Art

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. – James Wolcott

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all. – Miguel de Cervantes

Category:
Courage

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Experience

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity – and an obligation – to help them turn this desire into reality. – Condoleezza Rice

Category:
Freedom

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

Category:
Stubbornness