“Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities.”
Kakuzo Okakura book The Book of Tea
Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea (1906), Ch. II.
Art
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: In the vaunted works of Art
The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
“Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities.”
Kakuzo Okakura book The Book of Tea
Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea (1906), Ch. II.
“Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy.”
Jimmy Magee (1935–2017) Gaelic games commentatot
During the FIFA World Cup. herald.ie http://www.herald.ie/news/irelands-other-big-games-winner-jimmy-magee-3196108.html <br class="br">FIFA World Cup
“Part 5
The Voice-
Make that my voice”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment
“Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.”
William Collins (1721–1759) English poet, born 1721
To Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespeare.
“Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
A Time for Silence
“In creating wiki, I wanted to stroke that story-telling nature in all of us.”
Ward Cunningham (1949) American computer programmer who developed the first wiki
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki
Context: I think there's a compelling nature about talking. People like to talk. In creating wiki, I wanted to stroke that story-telling nature in all of us. Second, and perhaps most important, I wanted people who wouldn't normally author to find it comfortable authoring, so that there stood a chance of us discovering the structure of what they had to say.
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature.”
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author
Writing on Charles Dickens, in "In Defence of an Obsolete Author" in William and Mary College Monthly (November 1897), VII, p. 3-4
Context: A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature. … Life is a series of false values. There it is always the little things that are greatest. Art attempts to remedy this. It may be defined as an expurgated edition of Nature.