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Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
Victor Hugo1802–1885The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), Book Third, Chapter IIn context
- History
- Time
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Music at Night and Other Essays (1931), “The Rest is Silence”
- Music
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Point Counter Point (1928), Ch. 28
- Humor
Crikey, mate. You’re far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.
Steve Irwin1962–2006from “Enough Rope With Andrew Denton” on ABC, 2004
- Clever Jabs
- Movies
In all great poetry there is a kind of “kenosis” of the understanding, a self-emptying of the tongue. Here language points away from itself to something greater than itself.
L. P. Jacks1860–1955The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
- Poetry
I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honoured to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
Michael Jackson1958–2009
- Music
We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James1843–1916The Middle Years (1893)
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
William James1842–1910Collected Essays and Reviews (1920), Ch. 11—Clifford’s Lectures and Essays (1879)
- Poetry
- Science
For art to be art it has to cure.
Alejandro Jodorowskyborn 1929Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
‘Paradise Lost’ is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
- Poetry
- Reading
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
- Poetry
He that thinks himself capable of astonishing may write blank verse: but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
- Poetry
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903)In context
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part I, Episode 1In context
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use⁠—silence, exile and cunning.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (3 of 3)In context
- Freedom
- Religion