Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Art, Book, Mind

• The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Art, Violin, Hearing

• As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Art, Book, Writing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 52, 1799.

• There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar - that I call an achievement.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Art, Liars, Believe

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook E", E 59), (1775 - 1776).

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