Vitality

Famous quotes containing the word vitality:

“I seem to have heard that observation before.... It has all the vitality of error and all the tediousness of an old friend.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.... Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)