Madame de Stael Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

  Madame de Stael

  Art, Courtesy, Manners

• Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

  Madame de Stael

  Sports, Art, Enemy

• It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

  Madame de Stael

  Sympathy, Art, Dear Ones

• Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

  Madame de Stael

  Country, Art, Imagination

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