Top Veil Quotes
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.
Connie Sellecca
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Lech Walesa
There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
Edward Fitzgerald
Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
Mary Ritter Beard
Lord Chesterfield 
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Lech Walesa 
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Omar Khayyam 
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe 
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Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.
Connie Sellecca
60% of people like this quote
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Lech Walesa
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There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
Edward Fitzgerald
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Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
Mary Ritter Beard
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Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
Bridget Riley
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Lord Chesterfield
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Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
Franz Marc
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam
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