Jean de la Bruyere Art Quotations

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they are placed in ; who value and love nothing beyond it ; whose minds are as cramped as that narrow spot of ground they call their estate, of which the extent is measured, the acres are numbered, and the limits well known.