Romantic Art Quotes by Max Eastman

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Max Eastman has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
• The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
• The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
• Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if…
• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
• A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
• Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
• I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think…
• The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
• A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
• There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
• A smile is the universal welcome.

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