Victor Hugo Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

• Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Goal, Mind

• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Dear God

• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Soul, Graves

• Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Moving, Artist

• Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Science, Ladders

• Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Philosophy, History

• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Flesh

• His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Judgement, Genius

  Victor Hugo (2002). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Random House LLC

• God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Nature, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “William Shakespeare”

• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Art, Kings

  Victor Hugo (1948). “Notre-Dame de Paris”

• The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Intelligent, Luxury

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.42, Modern Library

• Art needs no spur beyond itself.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Spurs, Needs

• The true artist can only labor con amore.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Artist, Labor

• People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Law, People

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics

• For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Poetry, Harmony

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12470, Delphi Classics

• The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Writing, Divine

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

• Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Real, Men

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.43, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Men, Order

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo”

• To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

  Victor Hugo

  Crush, Art, Night

• Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Art, Ocean

• As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Art, Literature

• In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Light, Heat

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