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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Defeat Failure Failures Tried True Worst

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It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Appear Does Man Material Material World Me Nature Obtaining Open Order Permanent Question Soul Universal World

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The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Age Art Century Cycles Distinctive Drama English Examples Fall Greek Growth Lifetime Likewise Limit Often Painting Periods Poetry Pope Restricted School Schools Sculpture Seems Serve Spanish Two Victorian Vigorous Will Within

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Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Almost Ancient Between Changes Death Falling History Intervals Life Modern Place Practically Take Time Tree Tree Of Life Universal Were

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Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Always Beautiful Beautiful City City Crumbling Culture Dying Enrich Great Hill House Inherit Itself Lower May More New Race Rubbish Soil Some Spending Stored Treasure World

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'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Back Better Come Day Every Every Day Just Morning Never New Old Suppose Times Well Year

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Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Art Artist Both Determine Does Enduring Expression Extremely Factors Forth His Idea Law Like Mind Nature Order Other Permanent Power Primarily Science Set Skeleton Two Variable Works

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It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Arriving Artist Follow Meant Must Philosopher Scientist Stating Truth Way

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To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Abstract Arts Beautiful Chief Civilization Example Faculty Forth Humane Life Mankind Modern Noble Radiance Realize Set Shakespeare Supreme

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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.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: After Art Been Before Double Energy Face Gained Genius Germ Growth Hand Looks Makes Mind Other Romance Romanticism Tradition

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: Unknown

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