Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

An artist is a person who has submitted to a law which it is painful to obey, that he may bestow a delight which it is gracious to bestow. Ruskin.

An artist is only then truly praised by us when we forget him in his work. Lessing.

An artist must have his measuring tools, not in the hand, but in the eye. Michael Angelo.

An artist should be fit for the best society, and 30 should keep out of it. Ruskin.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. George Eliot.

A nation which labours, and takes care of the fruits of labour, would be rich and happy, though there were no gold in the universe. Ruskin.

[Greek: Ananka d' oude theoi machontai]—The gods themselves do not fight against necessity. Gr. Pr.

Anche il mar, che è si grande, si pacifica—Even the sea, great though it be, grows calm. It. Pr.

Anch' io sono pittore—I too am a painter. Correggio 35 before a picture of Raphael's.

Anche la rana morderebbe se avesse denti—Even the frog would bite if it had teeth. It. Pr.