Art Quote by Edgar Lee Masters

“The big rippled sheets of glass were taken out of their sacking and lowered from the back of the wagon, and for a few…

— John Banville

“A giant that became the giant through unethical ways is undoubtedly the smallest dwarf ever!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“He was staring off across the long broad fields, raising his eyes above the red clay soil to the horizon, looking across the fiery-red…

— Jim Thompson

“We claim no glory. If the tempest rolls About us we have fear, and then Having so small a stake grow bold again. We…

— Ezra Pound

“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that…

— Victor Hugo

“...that Figure so impressd it self upon my Mind that I have been in a manner walking towards it all my Life. Then I…

— Peter Ackroyd

“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants. We see more things than the ancients and things more distant, but it is due…

— Anonymous

“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written…

— Carter Lindberg

“I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors…

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies…

— William Shakespeare

“It's hopeless," he went on. "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!" "We are dwarfs," William…

— Umberto Eco

“It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe! The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as…

— Ishmael