Closest Prior Art

Famous quotes containing the words closest, prior and/or art:

    Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.... Of all things of thought, poetry is the closest to thought, and a poem is less a thing than any other work of art ...
    Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    Euphelia serves to grace my measure,
    But Chloe is my real flame.
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man’s art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)