Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.


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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG
All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG
Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG
One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG
Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN
I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON
The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK
It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH
I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE
To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY
Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN
Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG
And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER