Ovid Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

  Ovid

  Art, Character, Faithful

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1441, Delphi Classics

• Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

  Ovid

  Art, Teaching, Men

• If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

  Ovid

  Art, Philosophy, History

• It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

  Ovid

  Art, Philosophy, Believe

• Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

  Ovid

  Art, Sick, Stronger

  Pontic Epistles I.III.17

• From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

  Ovid

  Art, Boys, Sea

• It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

  Ovid

  Art, Chance, Increase

• Art lies by its own artifice.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Deception

• By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
  light chariot, and establish love.
  [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
  Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

  Ovid

  Art, Moving, Light

• To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

  Ovid

  Education, Art, Men

• By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

  Ovid

  Art, Faithful, Study

• Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
  Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
  The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
  Your art must be to moderate their haste.

  Ovid

  Running, Art, Moving

  Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

• Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

  Ovid

  Art, Men, Utility

• Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves
  To spend his time in his accustomed art.

  Ovid

  Art, And Love, Habit

• Art is most effective when concealed.

  Ovid

  Art, Art Is, Concealed

• The art of medicine in the season lies:
  Wine given in season oft will benefit,
  Which out of season injures.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Healing

• It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

  Ovid

  Art

• Art lies in concealing art.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Concealing

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