“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 – 1940

American novelist, author of "The Great Gatsby".

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

“There are no second acts in American lives.”

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”