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Category: Art and Culture

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1. "Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

Jean-Luc Godard

2. "Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word."

Eric Gill

3. "Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.... The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."

Marlon Brando

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

4. "If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."

Larry Gelbart

Other categories: Science and Technology

5. "The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist."

Théophile Gautier

6. "I cry out for order and find it only in art."

Helen Hayes, "On Reflection"

7. "Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue."

Benjamin Haydon, "Correspondence and Table Talk"

8. "Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution."

Théophile Gautier

9. "Books are ... funny little portable pieces of thought."

Susan Sontag, (Time, December 11, 1989)

Other categories: Science and Technology

10. "Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work."

Lewis Thomas, "On Thinking About Thinking"

11. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

Francis Bacon

12. "Without music, life is a journey through a desert."

Do you know who wrote this?

Other categories: Life and Death

13. "Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."

Samuel Beckett

Other categories: Human

14. "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."

E.M. Forster, "Two Cheers for Democracy"

15. "Journalism is literature in a hurry."

Matthew Arnold

16. "Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Marble Faun"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

17. "Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Paul Gauguin

18. "Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"

Paul Gauguin, "Intimate Journals"

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness

19. "Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."

Virginia Woolf

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

20. "There is the known and there is the unknown. In between are The Doors."

Jim Morrison

Other categories: Various -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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21. "Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."

Théophile Gautier

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

22. "Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

Edgar Degas

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

23. "Film music is like small lamp that you place below the screen to warm it."

Aaron Copland

Other categories: Various

24. "A line is a dot that goes for a walk."

Paul Klee

Other categories: Various

25. "Writing is the enemy of forgetfulness, of thoughtlessness. For the writer there is no oblivion. Only endless memory."

Anita Brookner, "Look at Me"

Other categories: Memory

26. "What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art."

Odilon Redon

Other categories: Pain and Tears

27. "A word is elegy to what it signifies."

Robert Hass, "Meditation at Lagunitas"

Other categories: Oration and Silence

28. "Great writers are the saints for the godless."

Anita Brookner

Other categories: God and Religion

29. "Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."

Robert Fitzgerald

30. "The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live."

Albert Pinkham Ryder

31. "Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."

Allen Ginsberg, "Ginsberg: A Biography"

32. "The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse."

Henry David Thoreau, "Journals"

Other categories: Various

33. "Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

Rebecca West, "Ending In Earnest"

34. "Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."

André Bazin, "What is Cinema?"

Other categories: Time and Passing -:- Various

35. "A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny."

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky, "Less Than One: Selected Essays"

Other categories: Destiny and Fate

36. "An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art."

Lee Simonson

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

37. "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Pablo Picasso

Other categories: Memory

38. "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Ludwig van Beethoven

39. "The only legitimate artists in England are the architects."

Benjamin Haydon, "Correspondence and Table-Talk"

Other categories: Science and Technology

40. "A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it."

Mikhail Glinka

Other categories: Patriotism

41. "An Artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

Emile Zola

Other categories: Work and Laziness -:- Talent and Genius

42. "An actor is exactly as big as his imagination."

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

43. "True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, letter to Johann Friedrich Cotta

44. "What matters in art is not thinking but making."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Italian Journey"

45. "Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."

Pablo Picasso

46. "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Robert Lee Frost, "Preface to Collected Poems"

Other categories: Pain and Tears

47. "A book is a present you can open again and again!"

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48. "Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold."

Alexander Pope, "Imitations of Horace"

Other categories: Youth and Age

49. "There are three reasons for becoming a writer. The first is that you need the money; the second, that you have something to say that you think the world should know; and the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."

Quentin Crisp, "The Naked Civil Servant"

50. "Interpretation is revenge of the intellect upon art."

Susan Sontag, "Evergreen Interpretation"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

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