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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
- Music
What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I’ll take that chance! Violent films don’t turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that’s another matter altogether.
Quentin Tarantinoborn 1963
- Movies
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Generally Speaking
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Poetry
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Poetry
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them ‘no, I went to films.’
Quentin Tarantinoborn 1963
- Movies
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936As quoted in Arts magazine: Vol. 1 (1926), also in The Golden Book magazine, Vol. 7 (1928) by Henry Wysham Lanier, p. 323.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost1874–1963Letter to Louis Untermeyer (January 1, 1916)
- Poetry
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
- Music
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873
- Beauty
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919), Part II
- Poetry
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.
Bob Dylanborn 1941
- Poetry
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
Quentin Tarantinoborn 1963
- Movies
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
- Music