ART

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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. – John Ruskin

I am more interested in what I discover than what I invent. – Paul Simon

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. – Carol Burnett

If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor. – Neil Simon

Film is one of the three universal languages; the other two—mathematics and music. – Frank Capra

The pain passes, but the beauty remains. – Pierre August Renoir

I dream of painting, then I paint my dream. – Vincent van Gogh

“In Beverly Hills they don’t throw garbage away.   They make it into television shows.” – Woody Allen – ANNIE HALL

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. – Plato

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G. K. Chesterton

“And then she opened a book of poems / and handed it to me / written by an Italian poet from the thirteenth century. / And every one of those words rang true / and glowed like a burning coal / pouring off of every page / like it was written in my soul/ from me to you…tangled up in blue.” – TANGLED UP IN BLUE – 1973 – Bob Dylan

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing.  Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. – Glenda Jackson

Every artist is at first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. – Decca Recording Company in rejecting a recording contact with the Beatles.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the only thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. – Henry Ford

“They drank from the same glass as one who would drink from the same lily.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

As long as they look good, they can interior-decorate their music.  They don’t have to play anything, just build an illusion that they are creative. – Joni Mitchell on modern music               

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. – Ben Hecht

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit.  Genius hits a target no one else can see. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Imagine having Einstein talk to you, or Gandhi.  In a concert, Mozart or Bach are talking to you, through time and space—You’re listening to the crystallizing of great minds. – Yo Yo Ma

LOVE STORY’S venality and infantilism makes us reach for a barf bag instead of a Kleenex. – Judith Crist

A good story is at its best when the line between truth and fiction remains ambiguous. – Leicester Hemingway

“Whatever she planted grew as if by magic, and her fame as a grower of flowers grew over three counties.  Because of her creativity, even my memories of poverty are seen through a screen of blooms.” – Alice Walker – IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHER’S GARDENS

Even when hope and science fail us, art survives. – Janet Maslin

Art is not the study of positive reality; it is the seeking of ideal truth. – John Ruskin

All anyone needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. – Henry Mitchell

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. – Frank Capra             

There is no thief like a bad movie – Sam Ewing    

Books may be the only true magic. – Alice Huffman

Art is not the study of positive reality; it is the seeking of ideal truth. – John Ruskin

Praise is like champagne—it should be served while it is still bubbling. – ROBIN’S READER

“We artists love praise, but we love truth even better.” – Robert Shaw (Henry VIII) to Paul Schofield (Sir Thomas Moore) in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS – Robert Bolt (Screenplay)

Music expresses that which cannot be said and of which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown.  There was a dish called ‘Mother and Child Reunion.’  It’s chicken and eggs.  And I said, “I gotta use that one.” – Paul Simon

It’s better to aim at perfection and miss it than it is to aim at imperfection and hit it. – Thomas Watson

Do what you love, and you will find a way to get it out to the world. – Judy Collins

The artist is nothing without his gift, but the gift is nothing without the work. – Emile Zola

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Art is never finished; just abandoned. – Leonardo da Vinci

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind.  If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life. – Yo-Yo-Ma

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. – Lauren Becall

A song is anything that can walk by itself. – Bob Dylan

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give up because by that time I was too famous. – Robert Benchley

Life is a big canvas.  Throw all the paint on it you can. – Danny Kaye

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts—the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. – John Ruskin

Your talent is God’s gift to you.  What you do with it is your gift back to God. – Leo Buscaglia           

“In Paradise you will be the great artist God intended you to be.  Ah, how you will delight the angels.” – Bodil Kjer to Stephan Audrane at the conclusion of the movie BABBETTE’S FEAST

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but to their inward significance. – Aristotle    

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive, and all the impersonators would be dead. – Johnny Carson        

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. – John Ruskin

“Every great work of art has two faces—one in its own time and one in the future, toward eternity.” – Daniel Barenboim – PARALLELS & PARADOXES: EXPLANATIONS OF MUSIC IN SOCIETY      

Doing nothing is very hard to do…how do you know when you’re finished? – Leslie Nielsen

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde

If you enjoy what you do, you will never work a day in your life. – Aristotle        

Art is man’s nature:  Nature is God’s art. – Philip James Bailey

If we could but paint with our hand what we see with our eye. – Honore de Balzac

Caricature is a rough truth. – George Meredith

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The function of art is to renew our perception.  What we are familiar with we cease to see.  The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see new meaning in it. – Anais Nin

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something beautiful or discover something that is true. – William Ralph Inge

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment that is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten and replaced by a new dish. – W. H. Auden