What did Edith Wharton mean by: Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. Edith Wharton Novelist · United Copy
+ … there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Strain, Worship, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Evidence, Impulses, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom. Author, August 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Firmness, Generosity, Wisdom, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn’t any. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Acceptance, Consequences, Denial, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Art, Beauty, Utility, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins. Author, July 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Monotony, Sin, Warning, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ [B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Intellectualism, Nourishment, Society, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears. Author, December 14, 2023December 29, 2024, Edith Wharton, Awareness, Perception, Wonder, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
