"Fine art" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... well if all students would keep clearly in their mind the real distinction between those words which we use so often, "Manufacture," "Art," and "Fine Art." "MANUFACTURE" is, according to the etymology and right use of the word, "the making of anything by hands,"—directly or indirectly, with or without the help of instruments or machines. Anything proceeding from the hand of man is manufacture; but it must have proceeded ...
— The Two Paths • John Ruskin
... talent, a fine art; but you've got to have your root in the soil, Hermia—unless ...
— Madcap • George Gibbs
... I would like to read them. You have turned murder into a fine art—you should have been a contemporary of ...
— The Devil's Admiral • Frederick Ferdinand Moore
... twelve different editions (not reissues) were published, and within the twelve months of its first appearance eighteen different London publishing houses were engaged in supplying the great demand that had set in, the total number of editions being forty, varying from fine art-illustrated editions at 15s., 10s., and 7s. 6d., to the cheap popular editions of 1s., ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe
... discover, he did not exhibit again in London until 1856, when he and his friends opened a collection of their pictures at 4 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square. We would rather have seen that little gallery than see most of the show-exhibitions of Europe. In it the fine art of the Anglo-Saxon race was seen dawning again after its long and dark night. Rossetti himself was the principal exhibitor, but his two earliest colleagues, now famous painters, Mr. Millais and Mr. Holman Hunt, also ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various
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