"The Moon and Sixpence" Quotes

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

Art is a manifestation of emotion.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.

There are times when it requires great moral courage to abandon one's country.

We do not live on the heights, but in the depths of ourselves, and only in the depths can we truly live.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.