4 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Art

Benjamin Disraeli quotes on art

119. Genius, when young, is divine.

166. You know who critics are?- the men who have failed in literature and art.

185. 'Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell and making them anticipate the trip.'

263. 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.