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November 2, 2012 by kevinstilley

Art and Artists – select quotes

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~ Scott Adams

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.
~ Theodore Adorno

It is curious that money, which is the most valuable thing in life, excepis excipiendis, should be the most fatal corrupter of music, literature, painting and all the arts. As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.
~ Samuel Butler

A picture is a poem without words.
~ Confucius

To me it seems as if God conceived the world, that was poetry; he formed it, and that was sculpture; He colored it, and that was painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal drama.
~ Charlotte Cushman

Nature is the Art of God.
~ Dante Alighieri in Monarchy

Art is a quest for the useless.
~ Gustave Flaubert

The artist is not a different kind of person, but each one of us is a different kind of artist.
~ Eric Gill

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
~ Rollo May

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
~ Michelangelo

Art is the great stimulus to life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.
~ John Opie

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
~ Pablo Picasso

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
~ Lincoln Steffens

But then no artist is normal; if he were, he wouldn’t be an artist. Normal men don’t create works of art. They eat, sleep, hold down routine jobs, and die. You are hypersensitive to life and nature; that’s why you are able to interpret for the rest of us. But if you are not careful, that very hypersensitiveness will lead you to your destruction. The strain of it breaks every artist in time.
~ Irving Stone, in Lust for Life

Art is not pleasure, or an amusement; art is a great matter.
~ Leo Tolstoy, in What Is Art?

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October 20, 2009 by kevinstilley

Epicurus – Select Quotes

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.
~ in Principal Doctrines

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can but will not, then they are not benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist.
~ in Aphorisms

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

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