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Art and Literature
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# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at all.
# · Unrated · 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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
# · Very Good (one rating) · 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
# · Unrated · 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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
# · Unrated · 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.
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