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Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Art

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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

Michel de Montaigne

Happiness, Art, Inspirational Life

My art and profession is to live.

Michel de Montaigne

Life, Art, Profession

Michel de Montaigne (1967). “The Essays of Montaigne”

No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Loyal, Conjecture

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Use, Coins

Michel de Montaigne (1908). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

Dream, Art, Faithful

Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1257, Xist Publishing

We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Giving, Evil

Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.531

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Liberal Arts

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.117, Stanford University Press

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

Michel de Montaigne

Mother, Art, Powerful

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.152, Stanford University Press

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Writing, Reflection

Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.126

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Children, Philosophy

Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Civilization, America

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Michel de Montaigne

Life, Art, Knowledge

Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

Michel de Montaigne

Education, Art, Teaching

Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Degrees, Found

Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.796, Delphi Classics

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Nature, Should

Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Stupidity, Mind

My trade and art is to live.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Art Is, Trade

Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.134, David R. Godine Publisher

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Children, Educational

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Trade, Know How

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Food, Cooking

"Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne".

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, People, Mind

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Michel de Montaigne

Dream, Art, Nature

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