Quote#Art
The greatest artist is he who is greatest in the highest reaches of…
Quote byGeorge Henry Lewes · 1817–1878
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: On Actors and the Art of Acting (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875) p. 13.
English (original)
The greatest artist is he who is greatest in the highest reaches of his art, even although he may lack the qualities necessary for the adequate execution of some minor details. It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man. The strength of a beam is measured by its weakest part, of a man by his strongest..
— George Henry Lewes
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