“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
Quotes to Get Motivated · Page 6
High-energy words to get you off the couch and into action.
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“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
“The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.”
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”
“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”
“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”
“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.”
“Public Disputes warm the Imagination, whet the Industry, and strengthen the natural Abilities.”
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.”
“No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself.”
“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.”