Quotes About Greek Art

#1. 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

#2. When I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

Ethel Smyth

#3. 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

#4. There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. 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.

#6. Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Plato

#7. I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Jane Haddam

#8. By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.

Jerry Della Femina

#9. To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was ...

Pablo Picasso

#10. The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Horace

#11. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that is the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying.

C.S. Lewis

#12. The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point. Modeling and painting reached their climax elsewhere. Despite the gigantic pyramids, the most wonderful architecture appears in the Greek temple.

Rudolf Steiner

#13. Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

Edward Gibbon

#14. Jules Breton has spoken of the history of his life as being at the same time the genesis of his art. This is true of Nikola Tesla's evolution. His bent toward invention we may surely trace to his mother, who, as the wife of an eloquent clergyman in the Greek Church, made

Nikola Tesla

#15. 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

#16. We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

Bernhard Langer

#17. When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

Alan Dale

#18. There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

Kenny Rogers

#19. Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

Deborah Wiles

#20. Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

Eric Johnston

#21. 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

#22. Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

Oscar Wilde

#23. 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

#24. We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#25. Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

Chet Baker

#26. We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. I

Terry Pratchett

#27. Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Alphonse Karr

#28. When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.

Herophilus

#29. I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

Agnes Martin

#30. Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

Alfred North Whitehead

#31. (why exactly twenty-somethings are considered so vital to protest movements, I never figured out, seeing as how they never vote and have no money)

Nell Zink

#32. The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

Isadora Duncan

#33. Be you. And everything will be divine-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

Raymond Chandler

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

Luke Slattery

#36. The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.

Thomas Wyatt

#37. Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful

Shakti Gawain

#38. The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

Elie Metchnikoff

#39. Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

Arthur Nersesian