Victor Hugo Quotes About Art

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  • God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

    Victor Hugo (1905). “William Shakespeare”
  • Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

  • In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

  • The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

    Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.42, Modern Library
  • Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

    Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.43, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

    Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics
  • Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

  • Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

  • An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  • To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

  • For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

    Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12470, Delphi Classics
  • Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

  • When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

    Victor Hugo (1948). “Notre-Dame de Paris”
  • Art needs no spur beyond itself.

  • The true artist can only labor con amore.

  • His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

    Victor Hugo (2002). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Random House LLC
  • Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

  • I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

  • Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

    Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria
  • Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

  • As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

  • The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

    Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo”
  • Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  • The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

    Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”
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