Famous Quotes

"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance."

Max Eastman on Romantic

More quotes about Romantic

• "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

  William Shakespeare on Romantic

• "Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Romantic

• "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

  Billy Graham on Romantic

• "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."

  Charlie Chaplin on Romantic

• "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw."

  Fran Lebowitz on Romantic

More quotes by Max Eastman

• "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."

• "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."

• "The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."

• "Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully."

• "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."