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Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Art

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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Art, Speech, Stifling

Thomas Carlyle (2015). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh”, p.196, The Floating Press

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Art, Book, Reading

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.136, Lulu.com

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

Art, Mushrooms, Antiques

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

Art, Disappointment, Book

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

Art, Spirituality, Logic

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.227

Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!

Mother, Dream, Art

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.66, 北戴河出版

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

Art, Life And Love, Government

History after all is the true poetry.

Art, Philosophy, History

Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2005). “The French Revolution”, p.13, Courier Corporation

O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.

Art, Book, Writing

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

Art, Black, Doubt

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Miscellanies”, p.135

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Art, Silence, Speech

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.20, CUP Archive

He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.

Art, Kings, Army

'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

Art, Character, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1839). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.2

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Respect, Art, Men

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

Art, Nature, Years

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

Art, Fall, Mad

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.273

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

Art, Father, Sleep

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.180, 北戴河出版

O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.

Art, Book, Writing

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

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