Art Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

12 Art quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Bulwer‑Lytton’s flamboyant prose extends to his commentary on visual expression. In twelve succinct reflections he captures the Victorian era’s blend of grandeur and moral contemplation.

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Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's…

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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

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The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that…

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There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from…

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Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical…

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Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with…

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O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book…

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Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the…

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To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited,…

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Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty…

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A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and…

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Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

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Law dies, books never.

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It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser…

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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

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In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner…

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Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

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Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily…

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He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

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I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

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Nothing ages like laziness.

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Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the…

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