If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.


Streaks of life (ed. 1922)

Ethel Smyth Quotes

If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations...

If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations...

If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations...

If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations...