Every artist writes his own autobiography.... -Havelock Ellis

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis , Psychologist
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Havelock Ellis Quotes to Explore

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it....
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men....
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men....
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive....
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry....
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks....
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is th...
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, t...
Man lives by imagination....
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw....

Art Quotes to Explore

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...