An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

Quote by DH Lawrence

Topics: Art Quotes, Potential Quotes

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what...

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what...

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon...

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon...

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be...

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be...

Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit...

Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit...

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But...

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But...

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen...

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen...

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can...

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can...

People always make war when they say they love peace

People always make war when they say they love peace

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding...

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding...

When soul has no value, business has no soul.

When soul has no value, business has no soul.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a...

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a...

The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source...

The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source...

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got...

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got...

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the...

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the...

Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that...

Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that...

Procastinator? No. I just wait until the last second to do my work because I...

Procastinator? No. I just wait until the last second to do my work because I...