Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton, was an English artist, art critic and author...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth10 September 1834
summer exercise winter
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
strength exercise development-and-growth
The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
wise pay attention
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?
goodness
Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.
sight feelings doe
Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
spiritual heart men
All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
cat anxiety may
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
cities water hart
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
mistake inspiration people
The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
life children men
The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.
ideas interesting littles
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.
work trying pleasure
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.
sadness ideas tree
I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.
woe-unto solitude bears
Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.