Art Quote by Walter Pater

Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to…

— Walter Pater

“Why did you paint a couch in the middle of the jungle?" Rousseau: "Because one has a right to paint one's dreams.”

— Henri Rousseau

The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat’s ultimate revenge.”

— Daniel Silva

Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital.…

— Terry Eagleton

“However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau”

— Jean-Jaeques Rousseau

“Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of life or…

— Pankaj Mishra

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of…

— Benjamin Wiker

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

— Colin Wilson

Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from…

— Russell Kirk

“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his practice of…

— Allan Bloom

“If I had had to choose my place of birth, I would have chosen a state in which everyone knew everyone else, so that…

— Christopher Ryan