Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

• Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Art, Long, Desire

• Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary to excel in either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of music, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy placed even above the other two--a proof of the decline of that country.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Music, Country, Art

• One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friends, Art, War

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.628

• A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Art, Gentleman, Ease

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