“He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.”— John Ruskin, Modern Painters (1843)Share
“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”— John RuskinShare
“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to…”— Rollo MayShare
“It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.”— David HumeShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every Art.”— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowShare
“There be none of Beauty's daughters with a magic like thee; and like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.”— Lord ByronShare
