Joseph Joubert Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Philosophy, History

• The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Thinking, Different

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Illusion, Charm

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Real, Secret

• When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Numbers, Wish

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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