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

Mikhail Glinka

Quotations about: Patriotism

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

Emile Zola

Quotations about: Work and Laziness -:- Talent and Genius

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

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

4. "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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Italian Journey"

6. "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

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

Robert Lee Frost, "Preface to Collected Poems"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

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

Anon.

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

Alexander Pope, "Imitations of Horace"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

10. "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"

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

Susan Sontag, "Evergreen Interpretation"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

12. "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

Leopold Stokowski

13. "No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers."

Horace, "Epistles"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

14. "Gin-and-water is the source of all my inspiration."

George Gordon Byron, "Conversations"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

15. "There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories."

Ursula K. LeGuin

Quotations about: Human

16. "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."

Truman Capote

17. "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Quotations about: Peace and War

18. "Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."

Edward Dahlberg, "Alms for Oblivion"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

19. "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

Gertrude Stein

20. "The great artist is the simplifier."

Henri-Frederic Amiel

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21. "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."

Jack Handey

Quotations about: Various

22. "Writers are as jealous as pigeons."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Envy

23. "Time is the only critic without ambition."

John Steinbeck

Quotations about: Time and Passing

24. "Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

Anthony Burgess

25. "Literature is my legal wife and medicine my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Science and Technology

26. "Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

Charles Baudelaire

Quotations about: Good and Evil

27. "Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Quotations about: Life and Death

28. "Music is essentially useless, as life is."

George Santayana, "Life of Reason"

29. "The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Wilhelm Meister's Travels"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

30. "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

Barbara Tuchman

Quotations about: Education

31. "The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication."

Raymond Chandler

Quotations about: Various

32. "It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove."

Owen D. Young

Quotations about: Various

33. "The more you reason the less you create."

Raymond Chandler

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

34. "There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art."

Raymond Chandler

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Truth and Falsity

35. "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."

Salvador Dalí

36. "Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Nature and Animals -:- Science and Technology

37. "The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated."

Charles Baudelaire

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

38. "Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

39. "The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years."

Oscar Hammerstein, from song "The Sound of Music"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

40. "When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love."

Franz Schubert

Quotations about: Love -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

41. "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

42. "Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals."

Diana Trilling

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

43. "The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

44. "Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

45. "The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style."

Vladimir Nabokov

46. "The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."

E. L. Doctorow

47. "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

Alfred Hitchcock

48. "A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

49. "A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."

Angela Carter, "Expletives Deleted"

50. "Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."

Françoise Sagan

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