Author: Alfred de Vigny

Quotes

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

- Alfred de Vigny

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

- Alfred de Vigny

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

- Alfred de Vigny

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

- Alfred de Vigny

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

- Alfred de Vigny

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

- Alfred de Vigny

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

- Alfred de Vigny

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