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One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. -- Carl Van Vechten
Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care. -- Pierre Soulages
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... ! -- Ethel Smyth
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. -- Alphonse Karr
Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama. -- Eric Johnston
Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man. -- Edward Gibbon
Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus! -- Deborah Wiles
The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence. -- Elie Metchnikoff
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. -- John Ruskin
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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