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Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Art

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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Art, Weather, Painting

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

Cheating, Art, Lying

Ambrose Bierce (1909). “The Shadow on the Dial: And Other Essays”

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Art, Color, White

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.618, Library of America

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Sarcastic, Country, Art

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.47, 谷月社

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

Art, Philosophy, Lying

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

Art, Blessed, Science

"The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

Photography, Art, Work

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Inspirational, Photography, Art

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Funny, Sarcastic, Art

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

Art, Magic, Coins

PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

Art, Future, Practice

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.189, University of Georgia Press

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

Art, Nature, Moles

Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.18, Penguin

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Art, Peace, War

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)”, p.217, e-artnow

ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . ."

Art, Father, Names

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.575, Library of America

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

Art, Entertainment, Ass

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

Art, Finance, Advantage

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.81, University of Georgia Press

art, n. This word has no definition.

Art, Definitions

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.14, 谷月社

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

Art, Character, Differences

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

Art, Tasks, Discrimination

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.250, tredition

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

Art, Two, Three

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.163, 谷月社

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

Art, Work, Skills

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

Art, War, Products

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.134, Courier Corporation

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

Art, Museums, Practice

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.186, University of Georgia Press

Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Change, Art, Records

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.67, 谷月社

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

Success, Art, Long

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