Art and Literature
44 aphorisms · 15 comments
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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/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/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/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/i0nu42ok · submitted 1997
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
tiny.ag/8dgit6e3 · submitted 1997
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
tiny.ag/qdh9azfp · submitted 1997
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
tiny.ag/6kpvlbo7 · submitted 1999
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
tiny.ag/molfssqk · submitted 1997
Art is anything you can get away with.
tiny.ag/35xxiwwa · submitted 1997
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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/vgytosrx · submitted 1997
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at all.
tiny.ag/okkjfcye · submitted 1997
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
tiny.ag/9dyyuj3l · submitted 1997
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
tiny.ag/hcrgr6oa · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
tiny.ag/qyerpit3 · submitted 1997
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation
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