Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Truth, Secret

• The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Art, Kindness

• Analysis kills spontaneity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Art, Philosophy

• To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Teacher, Art, Educational

• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Song, Teacher, Art

• Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Intuition, Criticism

• The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Artist, Simple

• Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Mean, Loss

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