Famous quotes containing the words natural, merge and/or sort:
“Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of “quaint,” and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)
“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)