Art Quote by Miles Franklin Download Open image “All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.” — Miles Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Egotism Idiot People
Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds. — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the… — Miles Franklin Copy Share
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind:… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image