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Category: Art and Culture

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1. "The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer."

Ernest Hemingway

2. "Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

3. "And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity."

Miguel de Unamuno

4. "God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."

Victor Hugo

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Nature and Animals

5. "When you listen to Mozart, the silence that follows is still Mozart."

Sacha Guitry

6. "Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Various

7. "A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

8. "The writer is the engineer of the human soul."

Joseph Stalin

9. "When words leave off, music begins."

Heinrich Heine

10. "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

Oscar Wilde

11. "An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."

William Faulkner

12. "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent."

Victor Hugo

13. "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

Bob Marley

14. "The wastebasket is a writer's best friend."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

15. "Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."

Peter Ustinov

16. "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."

Ernest Hemingway

17. "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

André Gide

18. "A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted. "

Samuel Butler

19. "An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Dagger with Wings"

20. "The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Victorian Age in Literature"

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21. "Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."

Jean de La Bruyere

22. "Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear."

Joseph Joubert

23. "Music fills the infinite between two souls."

Rabindranath Tagore

24. "I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

25. "Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him."

Carl Gustav Jung

26. "Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

Gustave Flaubert

27. "Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all."

Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

28. "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

Steve Martin

29. "Classic - something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

Mark Twain

30. "The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."

Gustave Flaubert

31. "The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

32. "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

Graham Greene

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

33. "A book is a mirror: If an ape peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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