John Dryden Quotes about Art

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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

John Dryden

Art, Giving, Painting

John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.332

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

John Dryden

Art, Nature, Missing

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.194

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

John Dryden

Art, Vices, Slave

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

John Dryden

Art, Oxford, London

'Prologue to the University of Oxon...at the Acting of The Silent Woman' (1673)

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

John Dryden

Art, Rocks, Wrecks

'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 2, l. 486

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

John Dryden

Art, Nature, Taught

John Dryden, John Loftis, Vinton A. Dearing (1967). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume IX: Plays: The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, Sir Martin Mar-all”, p.30, Univ of California Press

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

John Dryden

Art, Nature, Tails

'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

John Dryden

Art, Proud, Slave

John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.312

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.

John Dryden

Art, Hard Work, Science

John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA