A Quote by H. L. Mencken

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

H. L. Mencken

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Able Adversity Artists Atmosphere Flourish Function Hostility Indifference Misunderstanding Nine Nonsense Notion Utmost

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H. L. Mencken
American - Writer
September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

Tavis Smiley

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Benjamin Disraeli

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

John French Sloan

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

Peter S. Beagle

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

Alan Barth

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.

George Berkeley

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

John Lennon

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.

Andre Malraux

I'm not sure the notion of employee or job is going to survive the transition over the next couple of decades. The very notion of a fulltime job will seem as quaint in 20 years as the notion of someone getting a gold watch at their retirement in the 1950s.

Paul Saffo

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

Robert Greene

That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

Graham Swift

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

George Zebrowski

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

Bruce Springsteen

Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.

Stanley Morison

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