Art and Literature
44 aphorisms · 14 comments
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tiny.ag/lrnyb5qs · ★★☆☆ Fair (346 ratings) · submitted 1997
Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.
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/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/ectg9tju · ★★☆☆ Fair (267 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
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/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/4dr826gh · ★★☆☆ Fair (787 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1078 ratings) · 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/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/c4btvpfg · ★★☆☆ Fair (841 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some editors are failed writers, but then, so are most writers.
tiny.ag/1zzynlyn · ★★☆☆ Fair (439 ratings) · submitted 1997
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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/bmdpgrs0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1377 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let's have some new clichés.
tiny.ag/xudcfsey · ★★☆☆ Fair (845 ratings) · submitted 1997
In a painting I want to say something comforting.
tiny.ag/molfssqk · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
Art is anything you can get away with.
tiny.ag/6kpvlbo7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (880 ratings) · submitted 1999
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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/8dgit6e3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1198 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
tiny.ag/i0nu42ok · ★★☆☆ Fair (1224 ratings) · submitted 1997
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
tiny.ag/1ucvbvaf · ★★☆☆ Fair (911 ratings) · submitted 1997
No sane man will dance.
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