Art and Culture

"Art compares to nature like wine to the grape."

Franz Grillparzer "Notebooks and Diaries"

Art and Culture

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

Percy Bysshe Shelley "A Defence of Poetry"

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Great artists have no country."

Alfred de Musset

Art and Culture

Patriotism

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."

Willem De Kooning

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block."

Inigo DeLeon

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."

Gaston Bachelard

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen."

Uta Hagen "Respect for Acting"

Art and Culture

Talent and Genius

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

George Jean Nathan

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

Lionel Trilling

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."

Samuel Butler "Notebooks"

Art and Culture

Education

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again."

Carl Van Doren

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other."

Neal Cassady

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."

Günther Grass

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."

Henri Matisse

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art."

John Ruskin "St. Mark's Rest"

Art and Culture

History and Nations

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. "

Salman Rushdie

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

Salman Rushdie

Art and Culture

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Writing is turning one's worst moments into money."

J.P. Donleavy

Art and Culture

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state."

Cesare Pavese "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"

Art and Culture

Richness and Money

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem."

Lindsay Anderson

Art and Culture

Question and Problem

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people."

George Bernard Shaw

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

E. L. Doctorow

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk."

Charles Dickens "Nicholas Nickleby"

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."

Thomas Berger

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures."

Franz Grillparzer "Notebooks and Diaries"

Art and Culture

Rating: 1.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."

Salman Rushdie

Art and Culture

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."

Françoise Sagan "A Certain Smile"

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

Percy Bysshe Shelley "A Defence of Poetry"

Art and Culture

Happiness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Literature is analysis after the event."

Doris Lessing

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. "

W.H. Auden

Art and Culture

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A literary woman's best critic is her husband."

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Chapters from a Life"

Art and Culture

Marriage

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."

Christopher Hampton

Art and Culture

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "The Dehumanization of Art"

Art and Culture

Education

Human

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "The Dehumanization of Art"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The essential function of art is moral. [...] But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."

David Herbert Lawrence

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."

David Herbert Lawrence "The Spirit of Place"

Art and Culture

Trust

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

Francis Bacon "Essays"

Art and Culture

Human

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."

Hannah Arendt "Between Past and Future"

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous... Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead."

Harold Rosenberg "The Tradition of the New"

Art and Culture

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."

Thomas Henry Huxley "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Wherever art appears, life disappears."

Francis Picabia

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."

William Somerset Maugham

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."

William Somerset Maugham "Cakes and Ale"

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."

Edward Gibbon

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses."

Aeschylus "Prometheus Bound"

Art and Culture

Memory

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Frank Zappa "The Real Frank Zappa Book"

Art and Culture

Time and Passing

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)