He never looks you straight in the eye; or if he does, it is somehow vaguely, indefinitely; he does not pierce you with the hawk's eye or the falcon's gaze of a cavalry officer. The reason for that is that he sees, at one and the same time, both your features and those of some plaster Hercules standing in his room, or else he imagines a painting of his own that he still means to produce. That is why his responses are often incoherent, not to the point, and the muddle of things in his head increases his timidity all the more. Nikolai Gogol
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world? - E.a. Bucchianeri
  2. Talent & Skills are useless & won’t get you anywhere, without lot of practice, commitment & prioritization - Unknown
  3. To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935) - Dorothy L. Sayers
  4. It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either signifies nothing or has only a negative significance. If, on the other hand, we believe that we are living souls, God's dust and... - Wendell Berry
  5. Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby. - Shah Asad Rizvi
More Quotes By Nikolai Gogol
  1. I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
  2. The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
  3. Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of...
  4. You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.
  5. Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
Related Topics