“Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.”
Source: Seeds of Contemplation
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“To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.”
The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (1908)
1900s
Dem Bunde der Künstler einen bestimmten Zweck geben, das heisst ein dürftiges Institut an die Stelle des ewigen Vereins setzen; das heisst die Gemeinde der Heiligen zum Staat erniedrigen.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 49
Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 3 (p. 9)
“I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“And if you threaten my reputation, oh well, I'll have to ruin yours!”
"Letters from Zedelghem", p. 76
Cloud Atlas (2004), Letters from Zedelghem (Part 1)
Original: (fr) Et si vous nuisez à ma réputation, eh bien, il faudra queue je ruine la vôtre!
"Some Remarks on Ghost Stories", in The Bookman, December 1929; cited from Michael Cox M. R. James: An Informal Portrait (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) p. 150.