What did Max Eastman mean by: The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. Max Eastman Writer · USA Copy
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Max Eastman, Determination, Resilience, Success, 0 Max Eastman Writer · USA
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Max Eastman, Elevation, Perception, Proximity, 0 Max Eastman Writer · USA
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Max Eastman, Adversity, Courage, Knowledge, 0 Max Eastman Writer · USA
There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Max Eastman, Conformity, Existence, Individuality, 0 Max Eastman Writer · USA
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Max Eastman, Belief, Imagination, Liberalism, 0 Max Eastman Writer · USA
+ Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. Author, June 16, 2023January 2, 2025, Max Eastman, Instinct, Pain, Playfulness, 0 Max Eastman Writer · USA
+ Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. Author, June 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Max Eastman, Companionship, Connection, Emotion, 0 Max Eastman Writer · USA
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Max Eastman, Perception, Resilience, Understanding, 0 Max Eastman Writer · USA
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
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
