"Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."
― Henri Frederic Amiel
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― Henri Frederic Amiel
More From Henri Frederic Amiel
- "It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well."
- "Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
- "To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
More In Art
- "In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it."― Ernst Fischer
- "Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."― Jean Cocteau
- "If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."― Honore de Balzac