Art and Culture

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers."

Horace "Epistles"

Art and Culture

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 3.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Gin-and-water is the source of all my inspiration."

George Gordon Byron "Conversations"

Art and Culture

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories."

Ursula K. LeGuin

Art and Culture

Human

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."

Truman Capote

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Art and Culture

Peace and War

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."

Edward Dahlberg "Alms for Oblivion"

Art and Culture

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

Gertrude Stein

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The great artist is the simplifier."

Amiel-Henri-Frederic

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."

Jack Handey

Art and Culture

Sports

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Writers are as jealous as pigeons."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Art and Culture

Envy

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Time is the only critic without ambition."

John Steinbeck

Art and Culture

Time and Passing

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

Anthony Burgess

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Literature is my legal wife and medicine my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

Charles Baudelaire

Art and Culture

Good and Evil

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Music is essentially useless, as life is."

George Santayana "Life of Reason"

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Wilhelm Meister's Travels"

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

Barbara Tuchman

Art and Culture

Education

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication."

Raymond Chandler

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove."

Owen D. Young

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The more you reason the less you create."

Raymond Chandler

Art and Culture

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art."

Raymond Chandler

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."

Salvador Dalí

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."

Albert Einstein

Art and Culture

Nature and Animals

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated."

Charles Baudelaire

Art and Culture

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years."

Oscar Hammerstein from song "The Sound of Music"

Art and Culture

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love."

Franz Schubert

Art and Culture

Love

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals."

Diana Trilling

Art and Culture

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt."

Karl Kraus "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Art and Culture

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients."

Karl Kraus "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Art and Culture

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style."

Vladimir Nabokov

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."

E. L. Doctorow

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

Alfred Hitchcock

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there."

George Bernard Shaw

Art and Culture

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 8.40 (Number of Voters: 10)

"A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."

Angela Carter "Expletives Deleted"

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."

Françoise Sagan

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century."

James Graham Ballard

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.... You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

Angela Carter

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Art and Culture

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Paul Dirac

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

Samuel Johnson

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century."

Marshall McLuhan

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."

James Thurber "Lanterns and Lances"

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale."

Phyllis Rose "Women's Lives"

Art and Culture

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink."

Franz Grillparzer "Poems"

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)