What did Ovid mean by: Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art. - Ovid Poet · Italy Copy
+ We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023February 4, 2024, Ovid, Desire, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Lying, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature’s softened, and more gentle grows. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Art, Faithful, Study, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Hands, Kings, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Conquer, Conquest, Males, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Law, Murder, Plot, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ The mind that’s conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ovid, Integrity, Laughing, Lying, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
+ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. Explain Explain Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023February 4, 2024, Ovid, Persistence, 0 - Ovid Poet · Italy
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
