Art and Literature
44 aphorisms · 14 comments
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tiny.ag/fyjdrmtu · submitted 1997
I choose a block of marble and chop off everything I don't need.
François-Auguste Rodin, (on how he created his statues), in Art and Literature
tiny.ag/xrmys3sk · submitted 1997
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/lrnyb5qs · submitted 1997
Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.
tiny.ag/1kb8kpsn · submitted 1997
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up.
tiny.ag/ectg9tju · submitted 1997
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
tiny.ag/p6bwfqfr · submitted 1997
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
tiny.ag/o5xbszuz · submitted 1997
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
tiny.ag/n6fwvz07 · submitted 1997
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
tiny.ag/8dgit6e3 · submitted 1997
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
tiny.ag/i0nu42ok · submitted 1997
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
tiny.ag/nsr67v4t · submitted 1997
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
tiny.ag/2drhezti · submitted 1997
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.
Anton Chekhov, (advice to a novice playwright), in Art and Literature
tiny.ag/bkfg47jr · submitted 1997
I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances -- the curtains were up.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · submitted 1997
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/vgytosrx · submitted 1997
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at all.
tiny.ag/inomue9p · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wqaxitgv · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", in Art and Literature
tiny.ag/xozwtgoz · submitted 1997
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/asaliq9g · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
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