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Category: Art and Culture

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1. "A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

2. "Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace."

Karl Kraus

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Love

3. "Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry"

4. "A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

Thomas Mann

5. "Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."

William Somerset Maugham, "The Summing Up"

6. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

Oscar Wilde

7. "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

Peter Ustinov

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

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

Miguel de Unamuno

11. "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

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

Sacha Guitry

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

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Various

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Joseph Stalin

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

Heinrich Heine

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

Oscar Wilde

18. "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

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

Victor Hugo

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

Bob Marley

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Peter Ustinov

23. "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

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

André Gide

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

Samuel Butler

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Dagger with Wings"

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Victorian Age in Literature"

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

Jean de La Bruyere

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Rabindranath Tagore

31. "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

32. "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

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

Gustave Flaubert

34. "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

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

Steve Martin

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

Mark Twain

37. "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

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

39. "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

40. "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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