1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.