Quotes about art
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Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong;
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Julian and Maddalo (1819), l. 543- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822A Defence of Poetry (1821)
Upton Sinclair1878–1968Mammonart—an Essay in Economic Interpretation Ch. 2 Who Owns the Artists? (1925)
Edith Sitwell1887–1964“Some Notes on My Poetry”. Collected Poems (1957)Archeologists have not discovered stages of human existence so early that they were without art.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918–2008Nobel lecture (1970)From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.
Susan Sontag1933–2004“Against Interpretation” (1964), p. 5- Susan Sontag1933–2004Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), “One culture and the new sensibility”, p. 296
Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
Kevin Spaceyborn 1959Oscar acceptance speech, Best Supporting Actor, The Usual Suspects (25 March 1996)Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.
Britney Spearsborn 1981After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) and other newspapers
Herbert Spencer1820–1903“What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?” (1859), in Education (1861), Ch. 1There ain’t a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.
Bruce Springsteenborn 1949Bruce Springsteen Talking (2004)- Bruce Springsteenborn 1949Bruce Springsteen Talking (2004)
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Geography and Plays (1922), “Sacred Emily”