A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realized, it is robbed of ...
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
The critic will certainly be an interpreter, but he will not treat Art as a riddling Sphinx, whose shallow secret may be guessed and revealed by one whose feet are wounded and who knows not his name. Rather, he will look upon Art as a goddess whose m...
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
