Willa Cather Quotes & Quotations

Willa Cather Quotes

» Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

» Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

» The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

» The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

» Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

» Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

» Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

» The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

» That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

» Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

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