Maxwell Anderson Quotations

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime

So it's fun to be on the ground floor of understanding what artists will be doing in the years to come.

From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

This will be a show that challenges you. This is part of what art is meant to do.

Everybody thought the newspaper would end the discussions around the hearth, or that radio would end the newspaper, or that TV would end radio, ... Everybody always fears this and yet we always make more psychic room for all of these media.

And the days dwindle down To a precious few, September, November - And these few precious days I'd spend with you, These golden days I'd spend with you

There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And you prop up the window with a stick on the sill, And you carry spring water from the bottom of the hill; And the white star of Bethlehem grows in t

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it

It's a great time to be an artist, ... because a lot of the sacred cows are no longer in evidence.

After two years of working as a consultant, I'm excited about having the chance to once again be involved with an art collection and with a professional staff and with the general public. I missed having connections with art, ideas and people.

If Net art is in the embryonic stage, it's all the more fascinating.

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

How could we not? ... The Whitney for 70 years has followed the instincts of American artists.

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear solution for every claim, institutions will need to be forthright in explaining future acquisitions.

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless