Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
