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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. - Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Sibert Cather

Arts And Artists

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page. - Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

Willa Sibert Cather

Editing And Editors

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. - Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

Willa Sibert Cather

American Author

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. - Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

Willa Sibert Cather

American Author

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. - Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Willa Sibert Cather

American Author

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. - Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Willa Sibert Cather

American Author

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine. - Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

Willa Sibert Cather

Ideals And Idealism

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. - Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Willa Sibert Cather

American Author

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. - Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Willa Sibert Cather

American Author

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. - Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

Willa Sibert Cather

American Author

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