Quotes By Max Eastman
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
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.
Max Eastman
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max Eastman
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Max Eastman
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman
I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
Max Eastman