My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.


Poems of Thomas Hardy: a new selection (ed. MacMillan, 1977)

Thomas Hardy Quotes

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I...

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I...

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I...

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I...