Art and Literature
44 aphorisms · 14 comments
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tiny.ag/hp6j7tok · ★★☆☆ Fair (307 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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/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/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
tiny.ag/qdh9azfp · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (880 ratings) · submitted 1999
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
tiny.ag/molfssqk · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
Art is anything you can get away with.
tiny.ag/8dgit6e3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1198 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
tiny.ag/dcgo3bsq · ★★☆☆ Fair (1079 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
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.
Jorge Luis Borges, (autobiographical essay, 1970), in Art and Literature
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/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/sybjkox1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (276 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
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/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.
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