"The creative impulses of man are always at……" — Van Wyck Brooks
"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."
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22 Quotes by Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks has 22 quotes on this site.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they…
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
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The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he…
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Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is…
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Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
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No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is…
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Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by…
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human…
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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