Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton, was an English artist, art critic and author...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth10 September 1834
sight feelings doe
Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
reality society appearance
Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.
wise pay attention
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?
goodness
Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.
spiritual heart men
All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
people prejudice acquaintance
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
cat anxiety may
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
cities water hart
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
mistake inspiration people
The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
life children men
The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.
men able
Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
summer exercise winter
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
sweet spring winter
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.
fashion people study
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.