Art Quote by Samuel Daniel Download Open image “Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.” — Samuel Daniel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Culture Law Nature
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
“O blessed Letters, that combine in one All ages past, and make one live with all: By you we doe conferre with who are… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. Why so?… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. — Samuel Daniel 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
