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1. "The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous... Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead."

Harold Rosenberg, "The Tradition of the New"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

2. "Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

3. "Wherever art appears, life disappears."

Francis Picabia

Quotations about: Life and Death

4. "The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."

William Somerset Maugham

5. "You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."

William Somerset Maugham, "Cakes and Ale"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

6. "Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."

Edward Gibbon

7. "Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses."

Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound"

Quotations about: Memory

8. "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Frank Zappa, "The Real Frank Zappa Book"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

9. "Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know."

Joseph Roux, "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

10. "Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."

Joseph Roux, "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

11. "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."

Salman Rushdie

12. "The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."

George Santayana, "The Life of Reason"

13. "I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts."

Franco Zeffirelli

14. "I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."

Henry Brooks Adams

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

15. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Youth and Age

16. "Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Success and Fame

17. "If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

18. "For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity."

George Orwell, "Inside the Whale and Other Essays"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

19. "Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?"

Alexander Theroux, "An Adultery"

20. "Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

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21. "The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."

Walter Bagehot, "Physics and Politics"

Quotations about: History and Nations

22. "None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

Edith Hamilton, "The Greek Way"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

23. "When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself."

James Baldwin, "A Dialogue"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

24. "Fashions fade, style is eternal."

Yves Saint Laurent

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

25. "Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept."

Laurette Taylor

26. "A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream."

Gaston Bachelard

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

27. "Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting."

Leonardo da Vinci

28. "A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

Frank Zappa, "The Real Frank Zappa Book"

29. "I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Emile, or Education"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

30. "Music is the space between the notes."

Claude Debussy

31. "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

Tom Stoppard

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

32. "Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts."

Brian W. Aldiss

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

33. "Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

34. "A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Youth and Age

35. "All art is an imitation of nature."

Seneca the Younger

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

36. "Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much."

John Wayne

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

37. "There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

William Somerset Maugham

38. "I can`t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."

Fred Allen

39. "A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind."

Ellen Gilchrist

40. "To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art."

Jane Heap

Quotations about: Life and Death

41. "Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black."

Danish proverb

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Truth and Falsity

42. "Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound."

St. Thomas Aquinas

43. "A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman."

Wallace Stevens

Quotations about: Woman and Man

44. "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

45. "Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem."

John Braine

46. "Poetry is life distilled."

Gwendolyn Brooks

Quotations about: Life and Death

47. "Poetry is the deification of reality."

Edith Sitwell

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

48. "Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents."

Jean-Luc Godard

Quotations about: Law and Crime

49. "All the best songs are co-written by God."

Bono (U2)

Quotations about: God and Religion

50. "Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness."

Julia Cameron

Quotations about: Human

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