It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Taylor Caldwell
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. -
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable. -
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. -
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. -
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
More quotes by Taylor Caldwell
- People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
- Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
- My dreams are all follies.
- I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
- I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.