Author: Max Eastman

Quotes

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

- Max Eastman

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

- Max Eastman

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

- Max Eastman

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

- Max Eastman

A smile is the universal welcome.

A smile is the universal welcome.

- Max Eastman

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

- Max Eastman

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

- Max Eastman

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

- Max Eastman

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