"Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness." — William Winwood Reade

"Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness."

— William Winwood Reade

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13 Quotes by William Winwood Reade

William Winwood Reade has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.
And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet…
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only…
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could…
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things…
Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is…
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus…
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through…
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of…
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things…

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More Artistic Quotes

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could… — Javier Bardem
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play… — Jack Black
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal;… — William Blake
Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,… — Andrea Bocelli
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic… — Andrea Bocelli
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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