Ancient Quote by Douglas Wilson

“The heroes of ancient Greece wept more often than our silly, sentimental modern women. They knew it did no good to hold it back.…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“You see, the foundations of our culture were laid in classical Greece, where physical beauty and the body were celebrated. But our culture is…

— Ted Chiang

“because Christian artists substituted spiritual strength for Greek surface beauty.”

— Max I. Dimont

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“The most glorious works of art, the ones that bring the purest joy – perhaps they need not be touched or known, but seen…

— Michelle Cuevas

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.”

— Roger Caras

“We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. We have adopted Christianity merely as…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere,”

— L.M. Montgomery

“We have lived for too long with the arts as the pretty bit around the edge with the reality as a non-artistic thing in…

— N.T. Wright

“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”

— Mary E. Pearson

“Beware the Greeks when they bear gifts.”

— Colleen McCullough