"Art is unquestionably one of the purest and……" — John Lubbock
"Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life."
—
John Lubbock
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
23 Quotes by John Lubbock
John Lubbock has 23 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
-
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the…
-
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some…
-
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
-
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
-
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from…
-
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
-
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have…
-
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given…
-
Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
-
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
-
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as…
See all 23 quotes by John Lubbock »
More Art Quotes
This quote is filed under Art Quotes,
one of 14,657 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
-
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
-
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
-
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
-
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
-
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
-
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
-
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
-
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
See all 14,657 Art Quotes »