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Artful Quotes (page 90)

Alfred Jarry quote: "The work of art is a stuffed crocodile."
The work of art is a stuffed crocodile. Alfred Jarry
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short. Arthur Schopenhauer
The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living. T. S. Eliot
Will Durant quote: "Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises..."
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. Will Durant
The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless. George Bernard Shaw
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization..."
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Cyril Connolly quote: "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read..."
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. Cyril Connolly
William Shakespeare quote: "What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee..."
What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death. William Shakespeare
But perhaps the the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man and the opportunity it provides him of overcoming his phantoms and approaching a little closer to his naked reality. Albert Camus
And so they would go on talking or rather, understanding, which has become the main art of speech in an age when words are growing daily so scanty in comparison with ideas that ‘the biscuits ran out’ has to stand for kissing a negress in the dark when one has just read Bishop Berkeley’s philosophy for the tenth time. (And from this it follows that only the most profound masters of style can tell the truth, and when one meets a simple one–syllable writer, one may conclude, without any doubt at... Virginia Woolf
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable. Napoleon Bonaparte
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. Henry David Thoreau
I congratulate you people on being in the raging mainstream of the arts. It is commercial artists like myself who operate in the backwaters. I inhabit still, tepid waters clogged with dollar bills. I never see people. I've forgotten all about them. Guard yourself at all times. A lot of people believe that beauty is some kind of conspiracy -- along with friendly laughter and peace. Cheers --(Signed)Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut
(Title: To the Moon)Art thou pale for weariness. Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless. Among the stars that have a different birth,--And ever-changing, like a joyless eye. That finds no object worth its constancy? Percy Bysshe Shelley

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