All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
More Quotes from George Henry Lewes:
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.George Henry Lewes
Insight is the first condition of Art.
George Henry Lewes
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
George Henry Lewes
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
George Henry Lewes
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
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