Horses in Art/subject Genres

Famous quotes containing the words horses, art and/or subject:

    “Kings and queens who wear a suit but once, though made by some tailor or dressmaker to their majesties, cannot know the comfort of wearing a suit that fits. They are no better than wooden horses to hang the clean clothes on.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird,
    Which ever in the haunch of winter sings
    The lifting up of day.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)