Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Quote by Gilbert K Chesterton

Topics: Art Quotes, Artists Quotes

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing...

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing...

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that...

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much...

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much...

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply...

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply...

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar...

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is...

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the...

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the...

Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being...

Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being...

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is...

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is...

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that...

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that...

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.