"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
― Honore de Balzac
Topic(s):
Art
― Honore de Balzac
More From Honore de Balzac
- "It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
- "Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"
- "A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
More In Art
- "A great artist is always before his time or behind it."― George Edward Moore
- "The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art."― E. M. Forster
- "Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."― George Jean Nathan