Roses/art

Famous quotes containing the words roses and/or art:

    Say that she rail, why then I’ll tell her plain
    She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
    Say that she frown, I’ll say she looks as clear
    As morning roses newly washed with dew.
    Say she be mute, and will not speak a word,
    Then I’ll commend her volubility,
    And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    ...that absolutely everything beloved and cherished of the bourgeoisie, the conservative, the cowardly, and the impotent—the State, family life, secular art and science—was consciously or unconsciously hostile to the religious idea, to the Church, whose innate tendency and permanent aim was the dissolution of all existing worldly orders, and the reconstitution of society after the model of the ideal, the communistic City of God.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)