Greek Art Quotes: top 14 famous quotes about Greek Art

Greek Art Quotes & Sayings

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Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. — Alphonse Karr

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. — Oscar Wilde

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things. — Luke Slattery

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. — Horace

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. — Aristotle.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art ... curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. — Carl Van Vechten

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama. — Eric Johnston

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus! — Deborah Wiles

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. — John Ruskin

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence. — Elie Metchnikoff

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man. — Edward Gibbon

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care. — Pierre Soulages