"The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist."

-- Oscar Wilde

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“What magic shall solve us the secretOf beauty that's born for an hour?”

Source : Madison Julius Cawein (1907). “Poems of meditation and of forest and field”
“The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик
“I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.”
“That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.”
“All writers are propagandists.”
“Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?”
“What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!”
“Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about lifeâ€”they have never felt its breath, its heartbeatâ€”however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”

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