"The desire for bad art is the..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.
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“No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.”
“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
“Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.”
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“In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'”
“There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.”
“Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.”
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“You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.”
“So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.”
“The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.”