“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. The First Effect I should say the first effect of the triumph of the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“most cannibalism is not a primitive or even a bestial habit. It is artificial and even artistic; a sort of art for… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
