Eighteenth Quotes

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I`ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it`s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

The eighteenth century called upon man to free himself of all the historical bonds in the state and in religion, in morals and in economics.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.