Art Quote by Logan Pearsall Smith Download Open image “How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom” — Logan Pearsall Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Gallery Inspirational My soul Soul
I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery. — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The National Gallery is the place that means to represent everything that's good and important in art and show what it believes everyone who… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art gallery, where… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
While it may be a really trying, weird time for the art world, I see good work all the time. If you just go around to that many galleries, and if you stay open, you're going to see work with enough energy and surprise. I don't think I've ever gone to the galleries without coming home thinking, Gee, I now… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share
I don't go to galleries every day because it's so rare that I like what I see. There's a lot of bad art out… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share 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… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
