What did Van Wyck Brooks mean by: Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means. - Van Wyck Brooks Writer · USA Copy
+ As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Van Wyck Brooks, Beautiful, Rainy Day, Writing, 0 - Van Wyck Brooks Writer · USA
+ The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Van Wyck Brooks, Creativity, War, 0 - Van Wyck Brooks Writer · USA
+ No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Van Wyck Brooks, Book, 0 - Van Wyck Brooks Writer · USA
+ Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Van Wyck Brooks, Genius, Virtue, 0 - Van Wyck Brooks Writer · USA
+ The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Van Wyck Brooks, Successful, 0 - Van Wyck Brooks Writer · USA
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