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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
- Children
I wrote a novel this year called Shop Girl, and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, “If you think you’re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending…that’s going to cost you.”
Steve Martinborn 1945
- Movies
I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards⁠—in the life of an artist.
Quentin Tarantinoborn 1963
- Failure
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms
- Poetry
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
Every poem can be considered in two ways⁠—as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Preface to Paradise Lost
- Poetry
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Life & Death
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Letter to I.O. Evans
There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.
Seth Greenborn 1974
- Music
You know what your problem is? It’s that you haven’t seen enough movies⁠—all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
Steve Martinborn 1945
- Movies
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost1874–1963The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
- Poetry
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon1940–1980Last interview (1980)
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973In: Sergei Eisenstein (1957), Film form [and]: The film sense, p. 127.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Tremendous Trifles (1909), Ch. XXIII: “The Toy Theatre”
Nowadays what isn’t worth saying is sung.
Pierre Beaumarchais1732–1799Often credited to Voltaire
- Music