Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.”

— Douglas Wilson

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“There, then, is the role of the amateur: to look the world back to grace. There, too, is the necessity of his work: His…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“And criticism - what place is that to have in our culture? Well, I think that the first duty of an art critic is…

— Oscar Wilde

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is…

— Peter Drucker

“The ancient Greeks who created the magnificent sculptures and structures were the same people who could be utterly cruel and barbaric.”

— Julia Vickers

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and…

— Ethel Smyth

You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish adherence to…

— Gutzon Borglum

“because Christian artists substituted spiritual strength for Greek surface beauty.”

— Max I. Dimont

“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new…

— Kakuzō Okakura

Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like,…

— Steven Berkoff