Art, Culture and Beauty quotes and sayings

Ayn Rand quotes


Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Ayn Rand quotes


Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.

Ouida quotes


If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

Ouida quotes


Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Alexander Pope quotes


True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Alexander Pope quotes


Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Bertrand Russell quotes


Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes


The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes


After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes


Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes


The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes


Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Arnold Toynbee quotes


America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Sid Vicious quotes


You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you`re got music.

Sid Vicious quotes


I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

Albert Einstein quotes


A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against the doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs. On the other hand, representatives of science have often made an attempt to arrive at fundamental judgments with respect to values and ends on the basis of scientific method, and in this way have set themselves in opposition to religion. These conflicts have all sprung from fatal errors.

Anatole France quotes


In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Anatole France quotes


The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Albert Camus quotes


To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Albert Camus quotes


Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Albert Camus quotes


Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Albert Camus quotes


Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Bette Davis quotes


The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Bette Davis quotes


My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis quotes


I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.

Albert Einstein quotes


God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Thomas Frank quotes


He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Groucho Marx quotes


Either he's dead or my watch has stopped

Alfred Hitchcock quotes


I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock quotes


For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock quotes


Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Alfred Hitchcock quotes


There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Alfred Hitchcock quotes


Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.

Alfred Hitchcock quotes


Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock quotes


In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

Alfred Hitchcock quotes


There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

D.H Lawrence quotes


The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes


Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

Rebecca West quotes


Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

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