“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
W. Somerset Maugham book The Summing Up
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.”
Early Art
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
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