Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Art
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Genius, when young, is divine.
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You know who critics are?- the men who have failed in literature and art.
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'Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell and making them anticipate the trip.'
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In whatever he has written he has affected something which has been intended to strike his readers as uncommon and therefore grand. Because he has been bright and a man of genius, he has carried his object as regards the young. He has struck them with astonishment and aroused in their imagination ideas of a world more glorious, more rich, more witty, more enterprising, than their own. But the glory has been the glory of pasteboard, and the wealth has been a wealth of tinsel. The wit has been the wit of hairdressers, and the enterprise has been the enterprise of mountebanks.