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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams1957–2026The Dilbert Principle (1996)
Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Song for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692), st. 3
- Music
So where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Christina Aguileraborn 1980
- Movies
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.
Isabel Allendeborn 1942Of Love and Shadows (1984)
- Photography
There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.
Gillian Andersonborn 1968Jasper Gerard (July 1, 2001) “Scully knows what it’s like to be an alien—Interview”, The Sunday Times, p. News Review 5.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle384–322 BCPoetics, 1451b.6
- History
- Poetry
For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Aristotle384–322 BCPoetics, 1461b.11
- Poetry
- Writing
Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
The crown of literature is poetry.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Essays in Criticism, second series (1888), Count Leo Tolstoi
- Poetry
Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849), “Shakespeare”, l. 1
- Genius
- Poetry
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Introduction to Ward’s English Poets (1880)
- Poetry
- Religion
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Essays in Criticism (1865), “Heinrich Heine”
- Poetry
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888On Translating Homer: Last Words (1862)
- Poetry
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992The Roving Mind (1983), Ch. 25
- Science