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
+ pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection. Feraz Zeid, October 25, 2023December 26, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Form, Hate, Pleasure, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Doubt, Shadow, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man’s burden. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, White Man, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. Feraz Zeid, September 22, 2023December 26, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Patience, Sarcastic, Virtue, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Energy, Home, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Blessing, Money, Wealth, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Benefit, Gratitude, Lying, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Beach, Nature, Sarcastic, 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
