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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonnaborn 1958
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Plato429–349 BCThe RepublicIn context
It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they’d say, ‘We’ll let you know.’
JCJohn Cassavetes
- Money
- Movies
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it’s the exact opposite!
Paul Dirac1902–1984
- Poetry
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
- Photography
People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe.
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
- Poetry
All art is but imitation of nature.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXV: On the first cause, Line 3.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
When real music comes to me⁠—the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding⁠—that has nothing to do with me, cause I’m just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium…those moments are what I live for.
John Lennon1940–1980
- Music
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Poetry
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830), Bk. V, Ch. 1
- Talking