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It is only through science and art that civilization is of value.
Henri Poincaré1854–1912The Value of Science (1905), Ch. 11: Science and Reality
- Science
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Ezra Pound1885–1972In a Station of the Metro, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (April 1913)In context
- Poetry
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
Ezra Pound1885–1972New Age, March 30, 1922. As quoted in Impact: Essays on Ignorance and the Decline of American Civilization edited by Noel Stock, 1960
- Work
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919), Ch. I: “Madame Swann at Home”
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
Thomas Pynchonborn 1937Phone call to CNN, reported in “Where’s Thomas Pynchon?”, CNN (June 5, 1997)
- Photography
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Burt Reynolds1936–2018In: Briton Hadden, ‎Henry Robinson Luce (1972). Time, Vol. 100. p. 43
- Comedy
- Movies
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Alan Rickman1946–2016Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son” by Aaron Hillis, IFC.com (4 December 2008)
- Acting
- Change
I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.
Arthur Rimbaud1854–1891Letter to Paul Demeny (May 15, 1871)
- Poetry
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
- Education
- Movies
We don’t make mistakes; we just have happy accidents. And that’s when you really experience the joy of painting.
Bob Ross1942–1995Bob Ross: Beauty Is Everywhere. Collection 1: Ep. 8 “Wintertime Blues”
- Failure
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
Joseph Roux1834–1905Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 1, LXXI
- Poetry
- Science
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
John Ruskin1819–1900Lectures on Art (1870), Lecture III
- Work
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.
John Ruskin1819–1900Modern Painters (1843-1860), Volume V, part VIII, chapter III (1860)
- Talking
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist’s signature.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 431)
- Science
I don’t know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Teddy (1953)
- Poetry