Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.” — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on there will… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth;… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.” — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
