George Eliot Quotes about Art

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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

George Eliot

Art, Men, Temptation

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1664, ShandonPress

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

George Eliot

Art, Men, Doe

Letter, 5 July 1859

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

George Eliot

Art, Sky, People

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.183, 谷月社

What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

George Eliot

Art, Children, Ocean

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

George Eliot

Art, Men, Fellow Man

George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.18, Oxford University Press

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

George Eliot

Beautiful, Art, Distance

George Eliot (1901). “Works of George Eliot ...: Daniel Deronda”

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

George Eliot

Art, War, Passion

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.117, Penguin

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

George Eliot

Art, Sacred, Pure

George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Edition”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

George Eliot

Art, Prayer, Father

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.26, George Eliot

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

George Eliot

Art, Book, Writing

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

George Eliot

Art, Kind, Fine

George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.426

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

George Eliot

Art, Light, Mind

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.52, Penguin