The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. . . . Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily.
More Quotes from G. K. Chesterton:
Tea, although an Oriental, Is a gentleman at least; Cocoa is a cad and coward, Cocoa is a vulgar beast.G. K. Chesterton
Architecture is the alphabet of giants it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men.
G. K. Chesterton
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
G. K. Chesterton
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.
G. K. Chesterton
Your next-door neighbour. . . is not a man he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog he is the noise of a pianola he is a dispute about a party wall he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
G. K. Chesterton
Evil comes at leisure like the disease good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
G. K. Chesterton
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Art Quotes, Medicine & Medical QuotesBased on Keywords: perspire
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.
Kathleen Winsor
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
Robert Bly
As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
Marvin Davis