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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck1902–1968“…like captured fireflies” (1955)
- Education
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Gloria Steinem1934–2026Moving Beyond Words (1994), Part 4: The Masculinization of Wealth, p. 196
- Change
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894An Inland Voyage (1878).
- Religion
Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896), No. XIV
- Poetry
- Writing
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)
I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025The Real Thing (1982), Act II, scene V
- Poetry
- Writing
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Travesties (1974), Act I
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
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
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them ‘no, I went to films.’
Quentin Tarantinoborn 1963
- Movies
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
If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
Quentin Tarantinoborn 1963
Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd;
All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“To Virgil”, st. 3 (1882)
- Poetry
On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to Conservative Election Rally in Plymouth (22 May, 2001)
- Movies
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in.
Dylan Thomas1914–1953Poetic Manifesto (1951)
- Poetry