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The artist is called a creator.

George Henry Lewes

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George Henry Lewes
Age: 61 †
Born: 1817
Born: April 18
Died: 1878
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Theatre Critic
Writer
London
England
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Artist
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Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
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Science is not addressed to poets.
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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.
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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
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Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
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Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.
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In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.
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The discoverer and the poet are inventors and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.
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There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
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When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
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The history of the race is but that of the individual writ large.
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The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.
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A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
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Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
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I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
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