Herman Melville Quotes about Art

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In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth,

In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.

Herman Melville

Art, Lying, White

Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.613, Northwestern University Press

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Herman Melville

Inspirational, Art, Feelings

"Mind, An Essay on Human Feeling,". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4, 1967.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

Herman Melville

Art, Money, Yield

Herman Melville (1998). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, Oxford University Press, USA

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Herman Melville

Art, Writing, Giving

Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.428

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

Herman Melville

Beautiful, Art, Smoking

Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

Herman Melville

Art, Wine, Foe

Herman Melville (2015). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville”, p.201, 谷月社

In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.

Herman Melville

Dream, Art, Hate

Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.

Herman Melville

Art, Political, Dreamer

Herman Melville (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.409, Northwestern University Press