Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our…

— Kenneth Clark

“The heroes of ancient Greece wept more often than our silly, sentimental modern women. They knew it did no good to hold it back.…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“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

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens…

— Pablo Picasso

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You see, the foundations of our culture were laid in classical Greece, where physical beauty and the body were celebrated. But our culture is…

— Ted Chiang

I like sculpture with broken pieces of Greek ships.

— Billy Zane

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Julia Vickers

You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of…

— Melina Mercouri