A Quote by Ovid

If the art is concealed, it succeeds. — © Ovid
If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

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Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance.
Where there's liberty, art succeeds.
Art is most effective when concealed.
When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
When one tight end succeeds, everybody succeeds - like the tight ends were making under $10 million a year. To me that doesn't make any sense.
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate authority. . . . In Scott's incisive blend of art history, sociology, and sports writing, he makes a daring and original statement about fighters and the artists who enshrined them.
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed.
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.
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