The artist produces for the liberation of his soul... -W. Somerset Maugham

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes to Explore

Impropriety is the soul of wit....
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation....
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance....
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive....
The crown of literature is poetry....
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing....
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person....
Only a mediocre person is always at his best....
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it....
Writing is the supreme solace....

Nature Quotes to Explore

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....