Creative Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions to offer.…

— Henry Miller

“Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and…

— John Bagot Glubb

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

— Aristotle

“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the…

— Asti Hustvedt

“Decadence is an elusive concept, resistant to concise definition. In the broadest sense one might explain it as a delight in or preoccupation with…

— David J. Bell

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is…

— Jules Breton

“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the…

— Asti Hustvedt

This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will…

— Chinua Achebe

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I…

— Marianne Faithfull

“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his…

— Ambrose Bierce

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad