Quote#Art
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world…
Quote byGeorge Bernard Shaw · 1856–1950
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Love Among the Artists (1900).
English (original)
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling. Corrupt successes, disgraceful failures, or sheeplike vegetation are all it has to offer. I prefer Art, which gives me a sixth sense of beauty, with self-respect: perhaps also an immortal reputation in return for honest endeavour in a labour of love.
— George Bernard Shaw
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