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Quote 3122
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 3121
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 3116
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its processby: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 3114
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 3112
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent timesby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeralby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2967
Nature is a revelation of God; art is a revelation of manShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2961
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poeticalShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2950
Music is the universal language of mankindShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2894
The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct meritShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2886
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsingShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2843
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneezeShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2840
Never trust the artist. Trust the taleShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2836
The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibilityby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Museums are the cemeteries of the artsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2790
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answerby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2783
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by itby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vainby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2741
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other bodyby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2732
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subjectby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2726
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at allby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2717
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembranceby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2715
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporateby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2714
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2712
A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingnessby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2710
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own worksby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2703
I am fit for nothing but literatureby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2638
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.by: John KebleShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2612
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2572
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerityShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2558
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2544
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its authorShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2532
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frameShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2522
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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There is nothing new in art except talentby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2509
A book ought to be the ax to break the frozen sea within usby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2497
An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brainsby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2496
If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutterby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2480
“Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writingShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2371
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workmanShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2335
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonablyShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2332
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speakingShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2319
It requires more than mere genius to be an authorShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2318
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2315
Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at onceby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plugby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2306
One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like itby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2288
Bang-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-tetootle the fife; no keeping one's haunches still: it's the greatest pleasure in lifeby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2194
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really doesby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 2090
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposterby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was bornShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything elseShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 2061
Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetryShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovableShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Where words fail, music speaksShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1989
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profitShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1811
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unbornby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1805
I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed upby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1799
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audienceby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1793
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have belowby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1760
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelorby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1674
Libraries are not made, they growShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a catby: Edgar Allan PoeShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1582
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing themby: MoliereShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1559
It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that wayShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagineShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go togetherby: John RuskinShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1445
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1444
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitudeShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anythingby: Gustave FlaubertShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1441
Art is the proper task of lifeShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1440
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.by: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1439
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1438
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truthby: John RuskinShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1437
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealedby: Khalil GibranShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1435
All art is but imitation of natureShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1434
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperamentShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1433
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1432
Life imitates art far more than art imitates lifeShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1430
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1429
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1428
The history of art is the history of revivalsby: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1427
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beautyby: Alfred de VignyShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has knownShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Quote 1423
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.by: Robert SchumannShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
Quote 1422
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfectionby: MichelangeloShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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A man paints with his brains and not with his handsby: MichelangeloShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fedShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frameShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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A picture is worth a thousand wordsby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confessionby: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is artShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understandShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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In order to write about life, first you must live it.Showing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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Music fills the infinite between two soulsShowing Quotes on Music, art and literature
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