Quote of the Day (Sir Max Beerbohm, on the Vanity of Great Artists)

“Great artists are always vain. To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. Any great artist is far too perceptive and too exigent to be satisfied with that effect, and hence in vanity he seeks solace.” —British essayist-caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm (1871-1956), “Quia Imperfectum,” originally published in 1918, republished in The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, edited by Phillip Lopate (2015)