Arthur Machen - Best Quotes

It is all nonsense to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams – not by any means of all dreams – moves it may be said in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

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Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Arthur Machen

Every branch of human knowledge if traced up to its source and final principles vanishes into mystery.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face it is often safe to conjecture that in sheer forgetfulness he wore a red tie or brown boots with evening dress.

Now everybody I suppose is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

It is all nonsense to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams – not by any means of all dreams – moves it may be said in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.