A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be....... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
our nerve filaments twitch with its presence day and night,... nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying, nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such... mistakes is finished--it has lost its instinctive sureness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian state: here it is the great act of will, the will that moves mounta...ins, the rapture of the great will which aspires to art. The mightiest men have always inspired architects; the architect has always been under the spell of power. In his buildings, pride, the victory over gravity, and the will to power strive to become visible; architecture is a species of the rhetoric of power in forms, now persuading, even flattering, now simply commanding. The highest feeling of power and sureness finds expression in that which possesses grand style.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »