Art Quote by Ovid Download Open image “By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.” — Ovid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Education Faithful Faithful Study Gentle Gentle Grows Grows Nature Nature Softened Softened Gentle Study
“Again, of all the things that come to us by nature we first acquire the potentiality and later exhibit the activity (this is plain… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure. — Karl Blossfeldt Copy Share Image
But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty. — Justin Beckett Copy Share Image
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive the,.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid 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