Gasset Quotations Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent. For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.