Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Francois Delsarte

French Singer, Musician, Composer and Teacher

"The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then to fix it in form."

"Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence."

"Science and art are the handmaids of religion."

"The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being."

"The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter."