Phidias Quotes

5 quotes by 4 authors

• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of… — John F. Kennedy
• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
• Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their… — Bayard Taylor
• Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who Wrote These Phidias Quotes

4 authors contributed a total of 5 Phidias Quotes as follows:

• 2 Phidias Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Phidias Quote by John F. Kennedy
• 1 Phidias Quote by John Ruskin
• 1 Phidias Quote by Bayard Taylor