"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
― Willa Cather
Topic(s):
Freedom
More From Willa Cather
- "All the intelligence and talent in the world can’t make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can’t be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."
- "It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."
- "The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."
More In Freedom
- "The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery."― Lajos Kossuth
- "The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress."― Ramana Maharshi
- "One man’s blasphemy doesn’t override other people’s free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought."― Dan Savage