Michael Ayrton quotes
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“Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.”
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“Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.”
-- Michael AyrtonSource : Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”
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“The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.”
-- Michael AyrtonSource : Michael Ayrton (1962). “Drawing and Sculpture”
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“About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference shows itself only through holes in the dark.”
-- Michael AyrtonSource : Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”
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“Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?”
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“Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.”
-- Michael AyrtonSource : "The Maze Maker: A Novel".
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“Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.”
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“The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.”
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