Izaak Walton Quotes about Art

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Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Art, Fishes, Angling

"The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation".

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Art, Fishing, Doubt

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Wise, Art, Men

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Art, Nature, Animal

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.18