art Quotes

“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:words experience art

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

topic:art feelings poetry

“When any civilization is dust and ashes . . . art is all that’s left over.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:art

“Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

topic:music art pride

“She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:passion art

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:happiness money art

“I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:art wealth

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”

― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

topic:imagination art

“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:writing art

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