The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANThe perfection of art is to conceal art.
More Quintilian Quotes
-
-
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
QUINTILIAN -
Usage is the best language teacher.
QUINTILIAN -
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN -
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
QUINTILIAN -
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN -
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
QUINTILIAN -
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIAN -
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
QUINTILIAN -
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
QUINTILIAN -
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
QUINTILIAN -
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QUINTILIAN -
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QUINTILIAN -
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIAN -
She abounds with lucious faults.
QUINTILIAN -
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
QUINTILIAN