Art Quotes by William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived.

— William Hazlitt

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

— William Hazlitt

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

— William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

— William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

— William Hazlitt

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

— William Hazlitt

Silence is one great art of conversation.

— William Hazlitt

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

— William Hazlitt

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force…

— William Hazlitt

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

— William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

— William Hazlitt

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

— William Hazlitt

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without…

— William Hazlitt

A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises…

— William Hazlitt

Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with…

— William Hazlitt

The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We…

— William Hazlitt

Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person…

— William Hazlitt

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others;…

— William Hazlitt

In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to…

— William Hazlitt

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent…

— William Hazlitt

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the…

— William Hazlitt

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into…

— William Hazlitt

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in…

— William Hazlitt

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

— William Hazlitt