Our religion ... is itself profoundly sad--a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants... full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language--so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true found...ation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or... suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moral ...existence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life baffles and seems almost to mock. It refuses long to remain consistently one thing or another and it seldom puts us into one ...mood without violating it soon after. But Art, seeming to have for human dignity a respect which Life consistently lacks, grants us at least our right to sorrow fully and freely when sorrow is called for or to laugh our laugh out when laughter is appropriate. The artist selects and classifies what nature mingles in a hideous confusion and in doing so he is, in one of his many ways, adapting the universe to our minds by presenting it in an order which our emotions can follow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.... It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »