Art Quote by William Ralph Inge Download Open image “Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.” — William Ralph Inge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Books Half Literature Trade
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.” — Lisa C. Taylor Copy Share Image
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person. — William Ralph Inge 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
