Top 243 Quotes & Sayings by Willa Cather - Page 5

It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.