Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quote

One reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.


The Bent Twig (1915)


One reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of...

One reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of...

One reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of...

One reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of...