“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.” WellsMayHardMomentsHandsSeemsFacesSpiritArtistPassionFeetStrangeSensesCuriousFlamesContributionColourHorizonEcstasySuccess In LifeExquisiteStirring Book:The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
“... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.” IfsMomentsEvilNamesIndividualSituationCurious Author:Margaret Deland
“For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.” WellsLooksMayArtMomentsShowsSpiritInterestingHonestMovementOppositesInternationalExtremesContemporaryCuriousOddManifestationOfficialsRepresentationMost InterestingArt HistoryFlamboyant Author:Patrick Swift
“The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.” MenMomentsBeautifulArtistEffortBehindsLaughingImagineColorGayLaborDisappointmentBrilliantCuriousFrustratedSchemesFabricBrushesDarlingCompletionSagacity Author:Timothy Dwight V