All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Date of birth: 1854-10-16
Date of death: 1900-11-30
Quotes number: 203
Nationality: Irish
Profession: Dramatist
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialized form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.