Quotessence
Home / Authors / George Edward Woodberry Books
George Edward Woodberry

George Edward Woodberry Books

Literary critic

Heart of Man

A source page for quotes linked to George Edward Woodberry.

0 quotes

Related Quotes

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

InspirationalTryingSuccessPeaceWorstFailureDefeatMotivational SportsDefeatedNot Giving UpFear Of FailureOvercoming FearSuccess And FailureGreat SuccessSuccess FailureDetermination And SuccessBest SuccessOvercoming FailureFailure InspirationalAchieved SuccessInspirational Success FailureTrue SuccessFailure MotivationalAchievement And SuccessSuccess Is Not MeasuredWorst FearMotivational AchievementTemporary DefeatFailure Of LeadershipDefeated YouDare To Try
Author:George Edward Woodberry
Create image

“It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.”

WayArtistScientistPhilosopherArriving
Book:Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913
Create image

“The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.”

WorldWayHumansFightingIndividualMilitaryFieldsHabitBattleMathematicsStrategyAriseContactAgricultureHarvestTacticsMultiplicityTactics And Strategy
Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses
Create image

“You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.”

MayFormNamesCitiesLibertyFiguresTemplesHallsCommerceRepresentationStatuesMarbleVenusBronzeSingle WomenCity Hall
Book:Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913
Create image

“Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.”

MindDoeArtTwoIdeasLawArtistOrderExpressionEndureDetermineFactorsPermanentVariablesSkeletons
Book:Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913
Create image

“Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.”

MayMeanArtSoulFoundFeltPowerfulVisionExpressionMastersArt IsSubtleSpellsVividIndefinable
Book:Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913
Create image

“Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.”

MayUseDesireVoiceImaginationGreaterPoetHeightPurityUtteranceDesire To Live
Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses
Create image

“Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.”

MenTogetherUnderstandingGenerationsDependsCivilizationElementsTraditionBoundsGoldenLinksVitalityRenaissance
Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses
Create image

“Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.”

YearsChildrenMovementCivilizationFameEuropeMarkWesternHeightContinentsFloodRenaissanceSequelsOverflowWestern Europe
Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses
Create image

“The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.”

KnowsMindPersonsDoeArtDoneActorsRealizingStageGeniusTasksCriticsRemove
Book:Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913
Create image

“The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.”

ArtTwoSeemsAgeSchoolFallGrowthCenturyExamplePaintingPeriodsDramaLimitsLifetimeGreekCyclesPopeSculptureVigorousDistinctiveVictorianVictorian Age
Book:Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913
Create image

“The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.”

MenWorldMindEarthLiteratureLanguageIdentitySpeechLogicNotionVariousTongueVocal
Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses
Create image

“To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.”

ArtBeautifulRealizingModernMankindExampleCivilizationNobleSupremeChiefsAbstractFacultyHumaneRadianceRealize Life
Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses
Create image

“One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.”

YearsMindMayArtLightIndividualExpressionThousandPerceptionYears AgoInfiniteOriginalsIntellectCertaintyMathematicianThousand YearsVariables
Author:George Edward Woodberry
Create image