Art Quote by Edward Gibbon

“To be sure, there were attempts at translating the philosophy that was written in Greek into other languages – the presumed intention being to…

— Dimitri Gutas

“If you don’t speak Greek, how do you know if it’s all Greek to you?”

— Jarod Kintz

I think Greek is a really tough language to learn.

— Maria Sakkari

“It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!”

— Hergé

“[English] fails me utterly when I attempt to describe what I love about Greek, that language innocent of all quirks and cranks; a language…

— Donna Tartt

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

— Edward Gibbon

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely…

— William Jones

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

— Juvenal

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and…

— Ethel Smyth

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

— Mary E. Pearson

For my part, it was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

— Lytton Strachey