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Art and Literature
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. [Select] Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. [Select] Luciano Pavarotti {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance} Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth. [Select] Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up. [Select] I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. [Select] I choose a block of marble and chop off everything I don't need. [Select] François-Auguste Rodin (on how he created his statues) 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. [Select] Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. [Select] A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read. [Select] Mark Twain {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance} Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. [Select] I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. [Select] 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. [Select] An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. [Select] Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. [Select] Voltaire {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance} Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. [Select] Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. [Select] A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. [Select] G. C. Lichtenberg {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance} Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. [Select] Samuel Johnson {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance} 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. [Select] Christopher Spranger: The Effort to Fall Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself. [Select] Jorge Luis Borges (autobiographical essay, 1970)
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