| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33311 |
| QUOTATION: | Life baffles and seems almost to mock. It refuses long to remain consistently one thing or another and it seldom puts us into one mood without violating it soon after. But Art, seeming to have for human dignity a respect which Life consistently lacks, grants us at least our right to sorrow fully and freely when sorrow is called for or to laugh our laugh out when laughter is appropriate. The artist selects and classifies what nature mingles in a hideous confusion and in doing so he is, in one of his many ways, adapting the universe to our minds by presenting it in an order which our emotions can follow. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Joseph Wood Krutch (1893–1970), U.S. author, editor. Experience and Art, ch. 2, H. Smith (1932). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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