Art Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves…

— Francis Parkman

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

— Theodore Parker

“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

— Gustave Flaubert

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly…

— Henry David Thoreau

The world is becoming very black and white. People are striving for perfection where only the best is acceptable. If we continue down this…

— Madeline Stuart

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the…

— Washington Irving

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

— Alfred Austin

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render…

— Paul Cezanne

“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved…

— Baltasar Gracián

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson