Art and Culture

"A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience."

Mark Rothko

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

John W. Gardner

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist."

Louis Nizer

Art and Culture

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"I write to reach eternity."

James Jones

Art and Culture

Time and Passing

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."

William Styron

Art and Culture

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails."

Romain Rolland

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

Colette-Sidonie-Gabrielle

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."

Gustave Flaubert

Art and Culture

God and Religion

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods."

W.H. Auden

Art and Culture

God and Religion

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.56 (Number of Voters: 9)

"The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it."

J. D. Salinger

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."

Ingmar Bergman

Art and Culture

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."

Samuel Paterson "Joineriana: or The Book of Scraps"

Art and Culture

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."

Theodor Adorno

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty,but throughout it maintains the hands of originality, humanity and Almighty."

Anuj Somany

Art and Culture

Normality and Madness

Talent and Genius

Rating: 7.11 (Number of Voters: 9)

"Silence is more musical than any song."

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

Eugene Delacroix

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."

Franz Kafka

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I call architecture frozen music."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"When words fail, music speaks."

Hans Christian Andersen

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Art is I; science is we."

Claude Bernard

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.17 (Number of Voters: 12)

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."

Rosalind Russell

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."

Mata Hari

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life."

M. C. Richards

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Look at the photo, but paint from life: you're an artist not a camera."

Samantha Jordaan

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

Jorge Luis Borges

Art and Culture

Happiness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"When you are happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you're sad, you understand the lyrics."

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Art and Culture

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement."

John Ruskin

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A book worth reading is worth buying."

John Ruskin

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.14 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

Lev Tolstoy

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.14 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."

Cyril Connolly

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art."

John Locke

Art and Culture

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends, and the most patient of teachers."

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Art and Culture

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 8)

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

Edgar Degas

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."

Thomas Carlyle

Art and Culture

Talent and Genius

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

Plato

Art and Culture

Love

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."

Gloria Steinem

Art and Culture

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Drawing is putting a line around an idea."

Henri Matisse

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Aphorism - a grain of wisdom in the shell of words."

Kazimierz Matan

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Aphorism is a phrase that, after removal of context, retains all its meaning, and even gaining a new one."

Kazimierz Matan

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 8.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"I hate writing. But I love having written."

Dorothy Parker

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

F. Scott Fitzgerald (letter to his daughter Frances)

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Great artists do not copy what they see, but what they desire."

Théophile Gautier "The Golden Fleece"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."

Edward Gibbon "Memoirs of My Life"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

Godard-Jean-Luc

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word."

Eric Gill

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.... The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."

Marlon Brando

Art and Culture

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)