Ben Jonson Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

  Ben Jonson

  Inspirational, Art, Fool

• Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Men, Judging

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.763

• Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Art, Eye

  Epicene act 1, sc. 1 (1609)

• You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Fighting, Winning

• If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Poverty, Being True

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.665

• Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Sleep

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

• Still to be neat, still to be drest,
  As you were going to a feast,
  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.
  Lady, it is to be presumed,
  Though art's hid causes are not found,
  All is not sweet, all is not sound.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Art, Causes

  'Epicoene' (1609) act 1, sc. 1

• As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Style, Matter

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.133

• Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Men, Monsters

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.387

• It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Giving

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3178, Delphi Classics

• Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Ignorance, Enemy

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Every man in his humour. Every man out of his humour. Cynthia's revels; or, the fountain of self-love”, p.149

• Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Book

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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