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1. "Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment."

Carl Sandburg

2. "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."

Paul Klee

3. "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand... People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree."

Pablo Picasso

4. "One picture is worth ten thousand words."

Frederick R. Barnard

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

5. "Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

6. "Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Carl Sandburg

7. "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

8. "Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "Black Orpheus"

9. "Art has to be a kind of confession."

James Baldwin

10. "Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation."

Robert Lee Frost

11. "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car."

Kenneth Tynan

12. "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me."

Vladimir Nabokov, "Strong Opinions"

13. "American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither."

Gore Vidal, "Two Sisters"

14. "Art is meant to disturb, science reassures."

Georges Braque

Quotations about: Science and Technology

15. "Culture is an instrument wielded by professors, to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors."

Simone Weil, "The Need for Roots"

16. "If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue."

Peter Ustinov

17. "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

18. "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once."

Cyril Connolly, "Enemies of Promise"

19. "A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it."

Sir Thomas Beecham

20. "Good music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty. "

Sir Thomas Beecham

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21. "The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. "

Sir Thomas Beecham

Quotations about: History and Nations

22. "There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."

Sir Thomas Beecham

23. "Music is the eye of the ear."

English proverb

24. "Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. "Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

26. "Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

27. "Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved."

André Malraux

28. "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

29. "The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."

Socrates

30. "All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography."

Federico Fellini

31. "Art is the signature of man."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Everlasting Man"

Quotations about: Human

32. "It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture."

Tom Stoppard

33. "Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."

Steve Martin

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

34. "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."

Ernest Hemingway, "Death in the Afternoon"

35. "What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

36. "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying"

Quotations about: Life and Death

37. "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry"

38. "Art is a revolt against fate."

André Malraux

39. "Art is not a thing; it is a way."

Elbert Green Hubbard

40. "Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."

Karl Kraus

Quotations about: Science and Technology

41. "There are two classes of poets: the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

42. "Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

43. "Art is a jealous mistress."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

44. "The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination."

Henry Miller

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

45. "Where one begins by burning books, one will end up burning people."

Heinrich Heine

46. "Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments."

Elbert Green Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

47. "A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer."

Karl Kraus

48. "A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

49. "There are only two books written: Someone goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

50. "You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

Joseph Joubert

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