“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Art
Winston Churchill on Art
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” 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
Danny Kaye on Life
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” Continue reading
Jules Renard on Literature
“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Literature
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” Continue reading
James Russell Lowell on Art and Creativity
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.” Continue reading
Paul Valery on Poetry
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” Continue reading
Aristotle on Art
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Continue reading
Antoine De Saint-Exupery on Imagination
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” Continue reading
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