Art Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

“There is a frontier-line in human closeness That love and passion cannot violate-- Though in silence mouth to mouth be soldered And passionate devotion…

— Anna Akhmatova

“A respectable old man gives the following sensible account of the method he pursued when educating his daughter. "I endeavoured to give both to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated in envy,…

— Toni Morrison

“She craves men but women are her most abiding lovers. Her friends are her soul mates, all the love without the consumption of sex…

— G.G. Renee Hill

She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to…

— Theresa Villiers

“Besides, the woman who strengthens her body and exercises her mind will, by managing her family and practising various virtues, become the friend, and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“are much more beautiful in body than women. It is only a man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give…

— Will Durant

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

— John Barth

“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division of existence.…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and…

— Walter Savage Landor

“Let her not forget that she may be a man in the superiority of her mind, in decision of character, but that externally she…

— Therese Oniell

“love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy.”

— Hannah Mary Rothschild