Quote#Dreams
One has to catch a train in this kind of a civilization. You can't be…
Quote byArt Young · 1866–1943
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: On My Way: Being the Book of Art Young in Text and Picture (1928).
English (original)
One has to catch a train in this kind of a civilization. You can't be careless or gay, you must crowd in and go somewhere, or get left on the desert of your dreams. (October 31st)
— Art Young
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No day passes that one does not hark back to the personalities and events of yesteryear. (September 17th)
most people are artists and dreamers in their youth, but their talent and appreciation for art are destroyed by continual application to business and the duty of getting on. (September 11)
Literature and art ought to make people soul hungry. (September 4th)
every town should have an art gallery for the people. (September 11th)
If he has illuminated the dark and serious subject with a suspicion of fun-it is meant to convey the hope he feels for all sinners like himself, that some relief of a slightly humorous nature may be found even in Hell.
Hardly a day goes by that the problem of duty to myself-versus duty to others does not arise. (September 29th)