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1. "Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century."

James Graham Ballard

2. "The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

3. "Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.... You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

Angela Carter

4. "I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

5. "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Paul Dirac

Quotations about: Science and Technology

6. "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

Samuel Johnson

7. "Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century."

Marshall McLuhan

Quotations about: Various

8. "The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."

James Thurber, "Lanterns and Lances"

9. "The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale."

Phyllis Rose, "Women's Lives"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

10. "Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink."

Franz Grillparzer, "Poems"

11. "Art compares to nature like wine to the grape."

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

12. "Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry"

13. "Great artists have no country."

Alfred de Musset

Quotations about: Patriotism

14. "Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."

Willem De Kooning

Quotations about: Various

15. "The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block."

Inigo DeLeon

16. "Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."

Gaston Bachelard

17. "Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen."

Uta Hagen, "Respect for Acting"

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

18. "To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

George Jean Nathan

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

19. "Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

Lionel Trilling

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

20. "Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

Quotations about: Education

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21. "A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again."

Carl Van Doren

22. "Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other."

Neal Cassady

23. "Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."

Günther Grass

Quotations about: Life and Death

24. "There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."

Henri Matisse

25. "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art."

John Ruskin, "St. Mark's Rest"

Quotations about: History and Nations

26. "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. "

Salman Rushdie

27. "Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

Salman Rushdie

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy

28. "Writing is turning one's worst moments into money."

J.P. Donleavy

Quotations about: Richness and Money

29. "Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state."

Cesare Pavese, "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

30. "Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem."

Lindsay Anderson

Quotations about: Question and Problem

31. "The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

32. "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

E. L. Doctorow

Quotations about: Various

33. "There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk."

Charles Dickens, "Nicholas Nickleby"

34. "Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise."

Pablo Picasso

35. "Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."

Thomas Berger

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

36. "The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures."

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"

37. "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."

Salman Rushdie

38. "Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."

Françoise Sagan, "A Certain Smile"

Quotations about: Various

39. "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry"

Quotations about: Happiness

40. "Literature is analysis after the event."

Doris Lessing

41. "Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. "

W.H. Auden

Quotations about: Success and Fame

42. "A literary woman's best critic is her husband."

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "Chapters from a Life"

Quotations about: Marriage

43. "Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."

Christopher Hampton

44. "The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Dehumanization of Art"

Quotations about: Human -:- Education

45. "Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Dehumanization of Art"

46. "The essential function of art is moral. [...] But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."

David Herbert Lawrence

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

47. "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."

David Herbert Lawrence, "The Spirit of Place"

Quotations about: Trust

48. "Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

Francis Bacon, "Essays"

Quotations about: Human

49. "Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."

Hannah Arendt, "Between Past and Future"

50. "There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."

Pablo Picasso

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