Quote by Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric o

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! – Anatole France

Other quotes by Anatole France

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. – Anatole France

Category:
Art
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. – Edward Steichen

Category:
Art

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Category:
Art

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song Radio Gaga. – Lady Gaga

Category:
Art

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other peoples, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. – Saint Teresa of Avila

Category:
Peace

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyces view of Everyman as victim. – Robert Anton Wilson

Category:
History

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. – Steven Wright

Category:
Time

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. – Laurence J. Peter

Category:
Beauty