It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it,… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism.… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year,… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
