Quotes by Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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Interesting as it may be, truth (in art - n.n.s.) pleases more and makes a stronger impression when it is clothed in fiction; allegory is to mature people what fable (in the strict sense of the word) is to children.

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All arts pursue a double purpose; to please us and at the same time to instruct us.

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All pleasures - except those which rob men of their most precious treasure, time acquire their immortality, and protect us from force and boredom in so far as they appeal to reason. Purely sensory emotions remain superficial, exerting an insignificant strain on reason.