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1. "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

Edgar Degas

2. "Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."

Thomas Carlyle

Quotations about: Talent and Genius -:- Wit and Humor

3. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

Plato

Quotations about: Love

4. "Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."

Gloria Steinem

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

5. "Drawing is putting a line around an idea."

Henri Matisse

6. "Aphorism - a grain of wisdom in the shell of words."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Various

7. "Aphorism is a phrase that, after removal of context, retains all its meaning, and even gaining a new one."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Various

8. "I hate writing. But I love having written."

Dorothy Parker

9. "All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, (letter to his daughter Frances)

10. "Great artists do not copy what they see, but what they desire."

Théophile Gautier, "The Golden Fleece"

11. "The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."

Edward Gibbon, "Memoirs of My Life"

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

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Eric Gill

14. "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

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

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

Larry Gelbart

Quotations about: Science and Technology

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

Théophile Gautier

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

Helen Hayes, "On Reflection"

18. "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"

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

Théophile Gautier

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

Susan Sontag, (Time, December 11, 1989)

Quotations about: Science and Technology

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

Lewis Thomas, "On Thinking About Thinking"

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

Francis Bacon

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

Samuel Beckett

Quotations about: Human

25. "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"

26. "Journalism is literature in a hurry."

Matthew Arnold

27. "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"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

28. "Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Paul Gauguin

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

Paul Gauguin, "Intimate Journals"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

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

Virginia Woolf

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Jim Morrison

Quotations about: Various -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Théophile Gautier

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

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

Edgar Degas

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Aaron Copland

Quotations about: Various

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

Paul Klee

Quotations about: Various

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

Anita Brookner, "Look at Me"

Quotations about: Memory

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

Odilon Redon

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

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

Robert Hass, "Meditation at Lagunitas"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

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

Anita Brookner

Quotations about: God and Religion

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

Robert Fitzgerald

41. "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

42. "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"

43. "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"

Quotations about: Various

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

Rebecca West, "Ending In Earnest"

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

André Bazin, "What is Cinema?"

Quotations about: Time and Passing -:- Various

46. "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"

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

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

Lee Simonson

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

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

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Memory

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Benjamin Haydon, "Correspondence and Table-Talk"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

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