Theme/art

Famous quotes containing the words theme and/or art:

    “Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.—A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)