Art Quote by Francis Parkman

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among…

— Amelia Barr

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their…

— Zhuangzi

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today…

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

“Men do not become what by nature they are meant to be, but what society makes them... generous feelings... are, as it were, shrunk…

— Elbridge Colby

As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that…

— Luc de Clapiers

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for…

— Gustave Flaubert

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

— Samuel Johnson

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

— J. G. Holland

The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for…

— C. S. Lewis

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism…

— Fernando Botero