
“Art is not an end but a beginning.”
2000-09, Ai Weiwei: A Rebel of Poet Roots, 2008
Source: De Profundis
“Art is not an end but a beginning.”
2000-09, Ai Weiwei: A Rebel of Poet Roots, 2008
“Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending”
Elegiac Verse, st. 14 (1879).
Context: Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending;
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.
As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 506
Attributed
“The doctor begins where the apothecary ends, and the clergyman where the doctor ends.”
Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. V.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
“Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.”
Maxim 739, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)