Art Quote by Ethel Smyth

The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient…

— George Sarton

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers…

— Benjamin Disraeli

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

— Curt Flood

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Mary E. Pearson

“All ancient philosophers, poets, and moralists agree that love is a striving, an aspiration of the “lower” toward the “higher,” the “unformed” toward the…

— Max Scheler

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

— Edward Gibbon

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is…

— George Sarton

Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder &…

— William Blake

“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us,…

— Louis de Bernières

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

— Thucydides