“The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it”
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“The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it”
“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer”
“Museums are the cemeteries of the arts”
“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale”
“The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit”
“As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical”
“Nature is a revelation of God; art is a revelation of man”
“Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times”
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process”
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
“I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.”