Art and Culture

"Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know."

Joseph Roux "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."

Joseph Roux "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."

Salman Rushdie

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."

George Santayana "The Life of Reason"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts."

Franco Zeffirelli

Art and Culture

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."

Henry Brooks Adams

Art and Culture

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity."

George Orwell "Inside the Whale and Other Essays"

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?"

Alexander Theroux "An Adultery"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."

Jean Rostand "The Substance of Man"

Art and Culture

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."

Walter Bagehot "Physics and Politics"

Art and Culture

History and Nations

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

Edith Hamilton "The Greek Way"

Art and Culture

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself."

James Baldwin "A Dialogue"

Art and Culture

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fashions fade, style is eternal."

Yves Saint Laurent

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept."

Laurette Taylor

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream."

Gaston Bachelard

Art and Culture

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting."

Leonardo da Vinci

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

Frank Zappa "The Real Frank Zappa Book"

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques "Emile, or Education"

Art and Culture

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Music is the space between the notes."

Claude Debussy

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

Tom Stoppard

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts."

Brian W. Aldiss

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."

Henry Louis Mencken

Art and Culture

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All art is an imitation of nature."

Seneca the Younger

Art and Culture

Nature and Animals

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much."

John Wayne

Art and Culture

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

William Somerset Maugham

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I can\`t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."

Fred Allen

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind."

Ellen Gilchrist

Art and Culture

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art."

Jane Heap

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black."

Danish Proverbs

Art and Culture

Law and Crime

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound."

St. Thomas Aquinas

Art and Culture

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman."

Wallace Stevens

Art and Culture

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Art and Culture

Talent and Genius

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem."

John Braine

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Poetry is life distilled."

Gwendolyn Brooks

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Poetry is the deification of reality."

Edith Sitwell

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents."

Godard-Jean-Luc

Art and Culture

Law and Crime

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"All the best songs are co-written by God."

Bono (U2)

Art and Culture

God and Religion

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness."

Julia Cameron

Art and Culture

Human

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Art and Culture

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."

Roger Ebert

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

Bono (U2)

Art and Culture

Good and Evil

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"My work is writing, but my real work is being."

William Saroyan

Art and Culture

Human

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?"

Marlon Brando

Art and Culture

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)