Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If you look at sculptures from hundreds of years ago, everyone's naked. It's not a bad thing.

I've always dug Audrey Hepburn. I think she's one of the classic beauties.

The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.

People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

Never in my life have I been captivated by by anybody onscreen the way I was when I saw Audrey Hepburn for the first time. She's everything a woman should be.

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

The shield of Achilles was a great work of art; Homer devoted an entire chant of the Iliad to describing it. I suppose that the Americans would cast and mould such a shield in a few hours

I love looking like classic Hollywood.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

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

I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close.

Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.

A thing of beauty is a job forever.

High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Greek sculpture, from the sixth century onward, were originally parts of compositions, and if we were faced with the complete group in which the Charioteer of Delphi was once a subsidiary figure, we might well experience a moment of revulsion. We have come to think of the fragment as more vivid, more concentrated, and more authentic.