Art
Salvador Dali on Art
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
Samuel Johnson on Literature
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
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.”
James Thurber on Art
“He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.”
Orson Welles on Art and Time
“I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”
Winston Churchill on Art
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
George Bernard Shaw on Education
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
Jules Renard on Literature
“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”
Pablo Picasso on Art
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
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.“
T. S. Eliot on Music
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
Salvador Dali on Sanity
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
Virgil Thomson on Music
“The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.”
Danny Kaye on Life
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”
Henry Ward Beecher on Art
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
Lord Acton on Business
“I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.”
George Lucas on Movies
“The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.”
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.”
Laurence J. Peter on Originality
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
Honoré de Balzac on Art
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
Tom Stoppard on Art & Imagination
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
William Shakespeare on Imagination
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
Paul Valery on Poetry
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.“
Freeman Dyson on Technology
“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.”
Pablo Picasso on Imagination
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”