Mark Bostridge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.
-- Mark Bostridge

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I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...

Mark Bostridge famous quotes

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