when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
“The idea that Aphrodite was simply a representation of carnal lust is the product of much later representations of her. In fact,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“What is it about the Greek character that has allowed this complex culture to thrive for millennia? The Greek Isles are home… — Laura Brooks Copy Share Image
“In this sense the Dionysian man resembles Hamlet: both have once looked truly into the essence of things, they have gained knowledge… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the thought that hovering behind my work is a unifying belief system, just as there is behind Egyptian or Ancient… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“The word ‘arctic’ comes from the Greek artikos, which means ‘near the bear’, and is a reference to the Ursa Major constellation… — Tim Marshall Copy Share Image
“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Phidias and the achievements of Greek art are foreshadowed in Homer: Dante prefigures for us the passion and colour and intensity of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Are we labouring at some Work too vast for us to perceive? Are our passions and desires mere whips and traces by… — Jerome K Jerome Copy Share Image
