Art Quote by John Lubbock

“Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”

John Lubbock

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Art Color Doe Enlightenment Eye Flower Life Mind Pleasures of life Psychology Sun Through the eyes Train

More by John Lubbock

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

John Lubbock

Image

Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life…

John Lubbock

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

John Lubbock

Image

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if…

John Lubbock

Image

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

John Lubbock

Image

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

John Lubbock

Image

“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is…

John Lubbock

Image

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

John Lubbock

Image

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

John Lubbock

Image

“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind . The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of…

John Lubbock

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will…

John Lubbock

Image

This is a great way to become more conscious. Your intention and motives are fundamental to the results you will receive. Set high intentions…

John Lubbock

Image

Explore all 84 John Lubbock quotes

More Art quotes

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Aeschylus

Image

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

Aaron Rose

Image

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

Image

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

Image

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

Justina Chen Headley