Art Quotes

"In chess, one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge" "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual" "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe" "The life so short, the craft so long to learn" "Literature is news that stays news." "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties" "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work" "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion" "Always be a poet, even in prose" "The beautiful is always bizarre" "I believe that to create good work, you need strong emotion. You need to feel something deeply." "Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar." "True ease in writing comes from art not chance as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance" "Life is short, the art long" "Art is the great democrat calling forth creative genius from every sector of society disregarding race or religion or wealth or color" "A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival" "Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like - and the fact that people respond to them is kind of amazing." "Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place"