Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.


Early Art - The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912) - Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting


The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is...