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"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."

George Jean Nathan on Great

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• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by George Jean Nathan

• "No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."

• "Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."

• "Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."

• "To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

• "Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value."