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"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol.Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree,the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
Oscar Wilde
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"Climb if you will, but remember that courage and
strength are naught without prudence, and that a
momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a
lifetime. Do nothing in haste ; look well to each step; and
from the beginning think what may be the end"
Edward Whimper, "Scrambles Amongst the Alps" 1865
"If in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout" : weltengang (Laurence J. Peter? )
"Noblest of all dogs is the hot - dog; it feeds the hand that bites it." - Laurence J. Peter
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." - Picasso
"If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, then lets get wasted and have the time of our lives! "
"… whoever wants to learn to fly must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance: -one cannot fly into flying!"
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844-1900)
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles..."
Kerouac
"Its better to burn out than just fade away!" - the Kurgan (Highlander)
"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."
Aldous Huxley
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein
"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
Winston Churchill
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
Winston Churchill
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best." - St Jerome
"Monsters don't sleep under your bed, they sleep inside your head." - Yourchinadol - dA
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done." - Robert A. Heinlein
"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it." - Edward de Bono
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
"Eveybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid." - Albert Einstien
"There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground."
~Edward Gibbon
'To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.' - Oscar Wilde
"We are all worms. But I believe that I am a Glow-worm." - Winston Churchill
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view." -Jack Kerouac
"Let's plan a murder or start a religion." - Jim Morrison
"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?" - Dr. Seus
"Life is a climb. It's hard, but the view's great." - Lee Chae Rin (dA)
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And A Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an Hour"
— William Blake
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol.Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree,the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
Oscar Wilde
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"Climb if you will, but remember that courage and
strength are naught without prudence, and that a
momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a
lifetime. Do nothing in haste ; look well to each step; and
from the beginning think what may be the end"
Edward Whimper, "Scrambles Amongst the Alps" 1865
"If in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout" : weltengang (Laurence J. Peter? )
"Noblest of all dogs is the hot - dog; it feeds the hand that bites it." - Laurence J. Peter
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." - Picasso
"If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, then lets get wasted and have the time of our lives! "
"… whoever wants to learn to fly must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance: -one cannot fly into flying!"
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844-1900)
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles..."
Kerouac
"Its better to burn out than just fade away!" - the Kurgan (Highlander)
"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."
Aldous Huxley
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein
"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
Winston Churchill
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
Winston Churchill
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best." - St Jerome
"Monsters don't sleep under your bed, they sleep inside your head." - Yourchinadol - dA
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done." - Robert A. Heinlein
"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it." - Edward de Bono
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
"Eveybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid." - Albert Einstien
"There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground."
~Edward Gibbon
'To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.' - Oscar Wilde
"We are all worms. But I believe that I am a Glow-worm." - Winston Churchill
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view." -Jack Kerouac
"Let's plan a murder or start a religion." - Jim Morrison
"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?" - Dr. Seus
"Life is a climb. It's hard, but the view's great." - Lee Chae Rin (dA)
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And A Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an Hour"
— William Blake
An addition to "Quotes" - I may be apparent by my absense but I have been here and switched on! (-ish)!!
I can claim no origination, just enjoyment.
(Quotes to Cause Thoughts 1 : [link] )
I can claim no origination, just enjoyment.
(Quotes to Cause Thoughts 1 : [link] )
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