What did George Saintsbury mean by: So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge. - George Saintsbury Copy
+ Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Missing, Novelists, Ordinary, 0 - George Saintsbury
+ Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Curious, Humor, Savages, 0 - George Saintsbury
+ But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Century, Melancholy, 0 - George Saintsbury
+ The hardest thing to attain… is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Appreciate, Difference, Hardest, 0 - George Saintsbury
+ Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Majority, 0 - George Saintsbury
+ I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Cooking, Food, 0 - George Saintsbury
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
