Art and Literature
44 aphorisms · 14 comments
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tiny.ag/35xxiwwa · ★★☆☆ Fair (327 ratings) · submitted 1997
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
tiny.ag/nqpwl3vp · ★★☆☆ Fair (462 ratings) · submitted 1997
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
tiny.ag/zlwhlbfu · ★★☆☆ Fair (474 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
tiny.ag/okkjfcye · ★★☆☆ Fair (342 ratings) · 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.
tiny.ag/9dyyuj3l · ★★☆☆ Fair (392 ratings) · submitted 1997
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
tiny.ag/hcrgr6oa · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
tiny.ag/i7sepbck · ★★☆☆ Fair (927 ratings) · submitted 1998
The writer, making every effort to appear innocent and noble, takes his revenge with the pen; while the murderer, less hypocrtical, takes it with the sword.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Art and Literature
tiny.ag/hp6j7tok · ★★☆☆ Fair (307 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
tiny.ag/g8ncpo30 · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
tiny.ag/fnp4k5bh · ★★☆☆ Fair (397 ratings) · 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.
tiny.ag/fyjdrmtu · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · 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
tiny.ag/c4btvpfg · ★★☆☆ Fair (841 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some editors are failed writers, but then, so are most writers.
tiny.ag/lrnyb5qs · ★★☆☆ Fair (346 ratings) · submitted 1997
Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.
tiny.ag/ectg9tju · ★★☆☆ Fair (267 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
tiny.ag/1kb8kpsn · ★★☆☆ Fair (363 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up.
tiny.ag/qdh9azfp · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
tiny.ag/molfssqk · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
Art is anything you can get away with.
tiny.ag/6kpvlbo7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (880 ratings) · submitted 1999
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
tiny.ag/2drhezti · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.
Anton Chekhov, (advice to a novice playwright), in Art and Literature
tiny.ag/nsr67v4t · ★★☆☆ Fair (944 ratings) · submitted 1997
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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