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Artful Quotes (page 87)

Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the..."
Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score. Kurt Vonnegut
Unpraised, I find it hard to start writing in the morning; but the dejection lasts only 30 minutes, and once I start I forget all about it. One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, a silence there;[...] the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art. Virginia Woolf
As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? Stephen King
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not..."
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? Vincent Van Gogh
Herman Melville quote: "Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on."
Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on. Herman Melville
Ludwig van Beethoven quote: "Don't practice you art, but force your way into its secrets,..."
Don't practice you art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge raise men to the Divine. Ludwig van Beethoven
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own... Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joseph Conrad quote: "Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its..."
Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line. Joseph Conrad
Geoffrey Chaucer quote: "Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience..."
Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult. Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cabbage White The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight, Yet has- who knows so well as I?- A just sense of how not to fly: He lurches here and here by guess And God and hope and hopelessness. Even the acrobatic swift Has not his flying-crooked gift. Robert Graves
You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it? Soren Kierkegaard
Theodor Adorno quote: "The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully..."
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. Theodor Adorno
She knocked a third time, three regular strokes, gentle, but perfectly distinct, and with meaning in them; for, modulate it with what cautious art we will, the hand cannot help playing some tune of what we feel , upon the senseless wood. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary. Norman Vincent Peale
What really shapes and conditions and makes us is somebody only a few of us ever have the courage to face: and that is the child you once were, long before formal education ever got its claws into you - that impatient, all-demanding child who wants love and power and can't get enough of either and who goes on raging and weeping in your spirit till at last your eyes are closed and all the fools say, 'Doesn't he look peaceful?' It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all... Robertson Davies

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