The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
More Quotes by E. M. Forster
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
History develops, art stands still.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.