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Art Quotes by Ben Jonson
- He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me…
- You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
- Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
- Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .
- Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser…
- If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
- Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats…
- Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges,…
- They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a…
- Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or…
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