Famous quotes containing the words grand, central and/or art:
“The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)