Art Quote by Victor Hugo

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

— Eugene Delacroix

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation…

— Pericles

“Why does Homer give us descriptions so much more vivid than all the poets. Because he sees so much more around him. We speak…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful…

— Eva Brann

The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded…

— Joseph Jacobs

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

— Aldous Huxley

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved…

— Anne Carson

“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him,…

— Alexander Pope

“Yet nothing can be more certain than this: what makes a poet a poet is the fact that he sees himself surrounded by figures…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their…

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

— Aristotle