What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Teeth, Weak, Wisdom, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it. Feraz Zeid, June 6, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Mines, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Advice, Suggestions, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions. Feraz Zeid, November 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Freedom, Imagination, Patriotic, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Beer, Drinking, Motivational, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Doctrine, Forests, Philosophy, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Advantage, Honor, Renounce, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ alone, adj. In bad company. Feraz Zeid, August 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Company, Solitude, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
