Brett > Brett's Quotes

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.”
― Ezra Pound

“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”
― Ezra Pound

“what thou lovest well is
thy true heritage
what thou lovest well shall
not be reft from thee”
― Ezra Pound

“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”
― John Donne

“And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money.”
― Erica Jong

“If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.”
― William Butler Yeats

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ”
― William Butler Yeats

“The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

“Teach us to care and not to care”
― T.S. Eliot

“But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.”
― T.S. Eliot, Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
― Robert Henri

“Do whatever you do intensely.”
― Robert Henri

“Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.”
― Robert Henri

“All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.”
― Robert Henri

“Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.”
― Robert Henri

“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?” The real artist’s work is a surprise to himself.”
― Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

“The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.”
― Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
― Pablo Picasso