Art Quote by Novalis

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright

“Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.”

— Voltaire

“The trouble with ancient history is that, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of it took place a hell of a…

— John Powell

“The ancients were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable, All we can do is describe…

— Lao Tzu

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

— Voltaire

“There’s something with these ancient arts. They don’t last for centuries for nothing.”

— Peter M. Wayne

“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes…

— Charles Mackay

“When we speak of ancient times, Rud Elalle, we find in our words things far nearer to hand, and all those emotions we imagined…

— Steven Erikson

“Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“The very idea of Palaeolithic art was deeply disturbing. Was not art one of the great achievements of high civilizations?”

— James David Lewis-Williams

We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater…

— Luc de Clapiers

“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.”

— Roberta Pearce