4 James Russell Lowell Quotes on Art

James Russell Lowell quotes on art

5. It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

25. How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies, I give thanks For a new relish, careless to inquire My pleasure's pedigree, if so it please, Nobly, I mean, nor renegade to art. The Grecian gluts me with its perfectness, Unanswerable as Euclid, self-contained, The one thing finished in this hasty world, Forever finished, though the barbarous pit, Fanatical on hearsay, stamp and shout As if a miracle could be encored.

84. There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

85. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion,-emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.