“To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.”
Creativity Quotes · Page 4
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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
“She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.”
“A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.”
“By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.”
“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”
“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.”
“Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations—many rare combinations.”
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
“There is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ.”
“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, now thou art gone and never must return!”
“He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.”
“Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters.”
“I am an unauthorized poet who influences by means of the ideas.”
“Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.”
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”