About Logan Pearsall Smith
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language...
More quotations from Logan Pearsall Smith
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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