Greek Art Quotes

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.