Art Quotes by Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

— Joseph Addison

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

— Joseph Addison

There is a great amity between designing and art.

— Joseph Addison

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

— Joseph Addison

Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er…

— Joseph Addison

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!

— Joseph Addison

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

— Joseph Addison

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such…

— Joseph Addison

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and…

— Joseph Addison

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

— Joseph Addison

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by…

— Joseph Addison

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a…

— Joseph Addison

It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in…

— Joseph Addison

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors; Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost…

— Joseph Addison

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it…

— Joseph Addison

There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty…

— Joseph Addison

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it.…

— Joseph Addison

Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make…

— Joseph Addison

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate…

— Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle…

— Joseph Addison

Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double…

— Joseph Addison

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and…

— Joseph Addison