George Edward Woodberry
10 quotes
Biography
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
"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."
"Home from the lonely cities, time's wreck, and the naked woe, Home through the clean great waters where freemen's pennants blow, Home to the land men dream of, where all the nations go."
"If you can’t have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live in."
"I think that the sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love,—at least I think it is so with you."
"You may name a bronze statue Liberty, or a painted figure in a city hall Commerce, or a marble form in a temple Athene or Venus; but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman."
"Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire."
"'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."
"We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power."
"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith you must find things to believe in yourself for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live."