Art

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up

Nature is the art of God

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable

Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.

The arts of peace are great, And no less glorious than those of war

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.