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Art Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all…
- Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict…
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
- Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds…
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be…
- Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
- I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go…
- His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
- When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the…
- The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
- God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man.…
- Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it…
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov