"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
― Samuel Johnson
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Art
More From Samuel Johnson
- "At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest."
- "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
- "You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
More In Art
- "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."― Gertrude Stein
- "I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."― Walt Whitman
- "And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves “It’s pretty, but is it Art?”"― Rudyard Kipling