Art Quote by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“Let your rest be perfect in its season, like the rest of waters that are still. If you will have a model or your…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light,…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton