“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”
Faith
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
LifeAll Quotes by E. M. Forster
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
Art“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Life“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”
Freedom“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
Art“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
Beauty“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”
Death“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
Nature“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.”
Truth“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”
Respect“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
Poetry“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”
Mom“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
Women“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
Great“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
Beauty“History develops, art stands still.”
Art“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”
Faith“The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.”
Art“One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.”
Money“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.”
Art