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1. "Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

2. "Every great film should seem new every time you see it."

Roger Ebert

3. "Music can change the world because it can change people."

Bono (U2)

Quotations about: Good and Evil

4. "My work is writing, but my real work is being."

William Saroyan

Quotations about: Human

5. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

Michelangelo Buonarroti

6. "Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?"

Marlon Brando

Quotations about: Success and Fame

7. "By directing one good film, you prove that you had a movie inside of you. By directing two, you prove you are a director."

Roger Ebert

8. "Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him."

José Martí, "Poesia"

9. "I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information."

Quentin Crisp, "The Naked Civil Servant"

10. "Music is something that makes you feel, makes you think, and if you're really lucky, it makes you move."

Peter Gabriel

11. "To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."

Marlon Brando

Quotations about: Life and Death

12. "Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

Jorge Luis Borges

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

13. "Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky."

Arthur Koestler

Quotations about: Science and Technology

14. "I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

Henri Matisse

15. "All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."

Jean-Luc Godard

16. "There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven."

Augustine Birrell

17. "I am a part of everything that I have read."

Theodore Roosevelt

Quotations about: Education

18. "Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."

E. L. Doctorow

19. "Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera."

Jean-Luc Godard

20. "In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."

Alfred Hitchcock

Quotations about: God and Religion

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21. "A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

22. "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

Donald Knuth

Quotations about: Science and Technology

23. "A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."

Vincent Van Gogh

24. "Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."

Roman Polański

25. "Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain."

Mikhail Bakunin

26. "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

Gene Fowler

27. "The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. "

Gene Fowler

Quotations about: Success and Fame

28. "Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."

Sir Thomas Beecham

29. "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."

Robert Fripp

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

30. "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Science and Technology

31. "Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature."

Suzanne K. Langer

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

32. "Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."

Ernest Dimnet

Quotations about: Science and Technology

33. "A bestseller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well."

Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Image"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

34. "Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round."

David Lodge

Quotations about: Life and Death

35. "If it is art, it is not for the masses."

Arnold Schoenberg

36. "Poetry [...] is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal - which the reader recognizes as his own."

Salvatore Quasimodo

37. "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."

Charlie Parker

38. "Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

Willa Cather

Quotations about: God and Religion

39. "My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me."

John Barrymore

40. "God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: God and Religion

41. "Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."

John Singer Sargent

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

42. "Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."

Georges Simenon

Quotations about: Happiness

43. "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

Pablo Picasso

44. "Even before the music begins there is that bored look on people's faces. A polite form of self-imposed torture, the concert."

Henry Miller, "Tropic of Cancer"

45. "Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge)

46. "The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."

Jean Cocteau

47. "Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

Philip Johnson

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Various

48. "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

Carl Sandburg

49. "In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can."

Maurice Baring

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

50. "Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

Don Marquis

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