"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."
― Samuel Johnson
Topic(s):
Art
More From Samuel Johnson
- "The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book."
- "A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice."
- "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."
More In Art
- "Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory."― Claude Debussy
- "Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."― Arthur Schopenhauer
- "Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!"― David Herbert Lawrence