"The production of a work of art is……" — Hippolyte Taine
"The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies."
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Hippolyte Taine
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14 Quotes by Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Taine has 14 quotes on this site.
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There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
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I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what…
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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of…
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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics…
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In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the…
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After the collection of facts, the search for causes.
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Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the…
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History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
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There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
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We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty…
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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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