A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
E. M. ForsterRomance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
E. M. ForsterThere was something better in life than this rubยญbish, if only he could get to itโloveโnobilityโbig spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .
E. M. ForsterBut why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.
E. M. ForsterWe cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
E. M. Forster