"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."
― William Hazlitt
Topic(s):
Art
More From William Hazlitt
- "The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature."
- "Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."
- "We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."
More In Art
- "Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."― Thomas J. Watson
- "Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead."― W. H. Auden
- "Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."― Christopher Lasch