"Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius."
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George Edward Woodberry
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Quotes by George Edward Woodberry
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."