Art Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has…

— Anonymous

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions,…

— David Hume

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

— Archibald MacLeish

Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the…

— Eugenie de Guerin

Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has…

— Hans Arp

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the…

— Roger Caillois

since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little…

— Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different…

— Richard M. Weaver

It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of…

— Percy Jewett Burrell

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

— Fernando Botero

The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave…

— Lawren Harris

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

— Albert Einstein