Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
. . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias,… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
