Greek Art Quotes
Collection of 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
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
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
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