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But Louis XIV had clever ministers, mainly men of humble origin chosen for their outstanding ability. — E.H. Gombrich

Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. — Lindsay Ellingson

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it. — Ernst Gombrich

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro. — Ernst Gombrich

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it. — Ernst Gombrich

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists. — E.H. Gombrich

All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes. — Ernst Gombrich

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. — E.H. Gombrich

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few. — Democritus

if we want to avoid suffering, we must start with ourselves, because all suffering comes from our own desires. — E.H. Gombrich

So much gold reached Europe from India and America that burghers grew richer and richer as knights and landowners grew poorer and poorer. — E.H. Gombrich

This book is my obliging you. This is a book I never would have dared write, if I did not feel protected and obligated by your madness. — Helene Cixous

The artist creates his own elite, and the elite its own artists. — E.H. Gombrich

I hate it when pretty girls turn into tree. — Rick Riordan

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess. — Ernst Gombrich

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. — E.H. Gombrich

And it is because they seem so natural that they are so beautiful. — E.H. Gombrich

Live, for this is the time of your life. — William, Saroyan

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes. — Ernst Gombrich

In those days they weren't citizens as we know them, but old landowning families with vast estates of fields and meadows. — E.H. Gombrich

To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change. — Frederick Lenz

At first there's nothing to see, but you feel a sort of weariness that tells you something is in the air. — E.H. Gombrich

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story. — Charles De Lint

There is no reality without interpretation; just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear. — E.H. Gombrich