185 Quotes by Sherwood Anderson

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.