Art Quote by Ethel Smyth

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

— Carl Van Vechten

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

— Pierre Soulages

“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some taste and…

— R.A. Lafferty

“Are we labouring at some Work too vast for us to perceive? Are our passions and desires mere whips and traces by the help…

— Jerome K Jerome

“Phidias and the achievements of Greek art are foreshadowed in Homer: Dante prefigures for us the passion and colour and intensity of Italian painting:…

— Oscar Wilde

“The word ‘arctic’ comes from the Greek artikos, which means ‘near the bear’, and is a reference to the Ursa Major constellation whose last…

— Tim Marshall

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I enjoyed the thought that hovering behind my work is a unifying belief system, just as there is behind Egyptian or Ancient Greek art.…

— Grayson Perry

“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced it had…

— Terry Eagleton

The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The idea that Aphrodite was simply a representation of carnal lust is the product of much later representations of her. In fact, the representation…

— Charles River Editors

“What is it about the Greek character that has allowed this complex culture to thrive for millennia? The Greek Isles are home to an…

— Laura Brooks