Art
T. S. Eliot on Music
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
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.“
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.“
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.”
Salvador Dali on Sanity
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
James Thurber on Art
“He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.”
Philip Johnson on Architecture
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
Salvador Dali on Art
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
Pablo Picasso on Art
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
Seneca on Literature
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
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.”
Pablo Picasso on Imagination
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Lord Acton on Business
“I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.”
Don Marquis on Procrastination
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
Kate Reid on Acting
“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.”
Victor Hugo on Music
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Albert Einstein on Art and Science
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
George Bernard Shaw on Education
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
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.”
George Orwell on Writing
“In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.”
Edmond de Goncourt on Art
“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.”
Jules Renard on Literature
“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”
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.”