“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Art
Seneca on Literature
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.” Continue reading
Paul Valery on Poetry
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” Continue reading
Leonard Bernstein on Inspiration
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.” Continue reading
Stanley Kubrick on Movies
“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” Continue reading
Henri Matisse on Art
“A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I’ve been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.” Continue reading
Laurence J. Peter on Originality
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” Continue reading
T. S. Eliot on Music
“You are the music while the music lasts.” Continue reading
Pablo Picasso on Imagination
“Everything you can imagine is real.” Continue reading
Salvador Dali on Art
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” Continue reading
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