Honore de Balzac Quotes on art

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute... view

By: Honore de Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless... view

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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them... view

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other... view

By: Honore de Balzac

What is art? Nature concentrated... view

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart... view

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact... view

By: Honore de Balzac

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists... view

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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside... view

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane... view

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La clé de toutes les sciences est sans contredit le point d'interrogation ; nous devons la plupart des grandes découvertes au comment... view

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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi... view

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Les partis politiques sont ingrats envers leurs vedettes, ils abandonnent volontiers leurs enfants perdus... view

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L'amour est, chez une femme, la confiance la plus illimitée, unie à je ne sais quel besoin de vénérer, d'adorer l'être auquel elle appartient... view

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L'insouciance est l'art de se balancer dans la vie comme sur une escarpolette, sans s'inquiéter du moment où la corde cassera... view

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Un vrai sentiment ne se partage pas, il doit être entier, ou il n'est pas... view

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L'art procède du cerveau et non du cœur... view

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La clef de toutes les sciences est sans contredit le point d'interrogation, nous devons la plupart des grandes découvertes au : comment ? Et la sagesse dans la vie consiste peut-être à se demander à tout propos : Pourquoi ?.. view

By: Honore de Balzac