“A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature — a good bit, of course, but a bit only — in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.”

— Walter Bagehot

Wordsworth, Tennyson and Browning
Literary Studies (1879)

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British journalist, businessman, and essayist 1826–1877

Brian Hayes (scientist) (1900) American scientist, columnist and author

Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 4, Inventing The Genetic Code, p. 66

“[on becoming an artist] It is my profession, yes [ to be an artist] but a calling.. that a little bit pathetic, a little bit bombastic. I think it was much more natural... I Thought – when I was a child – the only method to be not in the world but outside of the world is to be an artist. I feel me outside, yes..”

Anselm Kiefer (1945) German painter and sculptor

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Tim Marlow joins Anselm Kiefer to discuss his work' - 2005

“The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.”

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

Source: Accepting the Universe (1920), p.301

“For the artist communication with nature remains the most essential condition. The artist is human; himself nature; part of nature within natural space.”

Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter

Klee's statement written in 1923, in 'Paths of the Study of Natura' (Wage dar Natur studiums), Paul Klee; in Yearbook of the Staatlich. Bauhaus, Weimar, 1919-1923, Bauhaus Verlag, Weimar, 1923
1921 - 1930

“I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature.”

George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) British philosopher

Rose, Blanche, and Violet (London: Smith, Elder, 1848) vol. 1, pp. viii-ix
Context: The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced — that without intelligence we should be Brutes — but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.