Greek Art Quotes:

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

- Epicurus

topic: Death, Art, Philosophical, Dying Well, Epicureanism

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

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

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

- Plutarch

topic: Friendship, Change, Real Friends, Inspiring Friends, Starting Anew

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

- Aristotle

topic: Success, Education, Teaching, Related To Education, Adversity And Character

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?

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2219, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Dog, Art, Real, Deluded, Greek Art

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 ... !

- Ethel Smyth

source: Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”

topic: Art, Fire, Hands, Greek Art

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

- Carl Van Vechten

topic: Art, Cat, Greek, Greek Art

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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.6, Courier Corporation

topic: Art, Simple, Men, Parthenon, Greek Art

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

- Pierre Soulages

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Beautiful, Art, Moving, Greek Art, Handsome Men