Thomas de Quincey Art Quotations

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.