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- I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick,…
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
- The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
- Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or…
- Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
- The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very…
- To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic…
- Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life…
- There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling,…
- I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am…
- While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual,…
- I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
- Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
- Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
- Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call…
- Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
- Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
- The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
- ...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
- On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and…
- A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
- As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival…
- Life is a great disappointment.
- Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
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