Art Quote by Washington Irving

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

— Francis Bacon

“Sylvia Plath's greatest poetry was sometimes conceived while she was baking bread, she was such a perfectionist and ultimately such a fool. The trouble…

— Germaine Greer

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving where in men find pleasure to be deceived.

— John Locke

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

— Marianne Moore

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

— John Owen

men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

— Dale Spender

“The Goddess-centered art we have been examining, with its striking absence of images of male domination or warfare, seems to have reflected a social…

— Riane Eisler

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

— Joseph de Maistre

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in…

— Anohni

There is a tide in the affairs of men

— William Shakespeare

Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men.…

— Katha Pollitt