15 Quotations by Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
- 1. A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
- 2. A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
- 3. Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re ...
- 4. As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad pic ...
- 5. I feel sure that coups d'etat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that on ...
- 6. Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
- 7. Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole a ...
- 8. One of the proud joys of the man of letters -- if that man of letters is an artist -- is to feel wit ...
- 9. That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
- 10. The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness fir ...
- 11. The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness fir ...
- 12. The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the tr ...
- 13. There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but ...
- 14. There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes con ...
- 15. Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the la ...
Edmond And Jules De Goncourt Quotes by Power Quotations
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