Art and Literature
44 aphorisms · 14 comments
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tiny.ag/i7sepbck · ★★☆☆ Fair (927 ratings) · submitted 1998
The writer, making every effort to appear innocent and noble, takes his revenge with the pen; while the murderer, less hypocrtical, takes it with the sword.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Art and Literature
tiny.ag/fnp4k5bh · ★★☆☆ Fair (397 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
tiny.ag/lrnyb5qs · ★★☆☆ Fair (346 ratings) · submitted 1997
Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.
tiny.ag/fyjdrmtu · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · 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/ectg9tju · ★★☆☆ Fair (267 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
tiny.ag/1kb8kpsn · ★★☆☆ Fair (363 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up.
tiny.ag/xrmys3sk · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · 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/p6bwfqfr · ★★☆☆ Fair (702 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
tiny.ag/o5xbszuz · ★★☆☆ Fair (356 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
tiny.ag/n6fwvz07 · ★★☆☆ Fair (352 ratings) · 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/is8fdtaa · ★★☆☆ Fair (1041 ratings) · submitted 1999
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.
tiny.ag/1zzynlyn · ★★☆☆ Fair (439 ratings) · submitted 1997
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
tiny.ag/bmdpgrs0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1377 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let's have some new clichés.
tiny.ag/yuezt1iy · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
tiny.ag/xudcfsey · ★★☆☆ Fair (845 ratings) · submitted 1997
In a painting I want to say something comforting.
tiny.ag/bkfg47jr · ★★☆☆ Fair (887 ratings) · submitted 1997
I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances -- the curtains were up.
tiny.ag/qyerpit3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/byzkqtr3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (651 ratings) · submitted 1997
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
tiny.ag/xozwtgoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (866 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (3066 ratings) · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
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