Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.