Havelock Ellis Quotes about Art

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To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

Havelock Ellis

Life, Art, Teach

Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

Havelock Ellis

Art, People, Dancing

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

Havelock Ellis

Art, Philosophy, History

havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

Havelock Ellis

Art, Lying, Men

havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Havelock Ellis

Life, Art, Men

havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

Havelock Ellis

Running, Art, Latin

Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”

Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.

Havelock Ellis

Art, Attitude, Golf

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis

Art, Writing, Architecture

New Spirit (1890) "Tolstoi"

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Havelock Ellis

Art, Lying, Dancing

havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”