#ture

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#insults #life #literature #novels #poems

I don't care what tomorrow brings, as long as I have you. ↗

— Molly Harper

#harper #love #molly #tomorrow #art

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#beauty #life #love #nature #art

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy. ↗

— Adachi Zenko

#culture #gardens #japan #art

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#common-sense #decor #decorating #humour #museums

The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities. --- Charlotte Bronte ↗

— Juliet Barker

#nature #truth #writing #art

One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov, Bely, Remizov, and, in certain aspects of their work, also by Babel and Bulgakov. It is a tradition, paradoxically, of experimenters and innovators. Perhaps the principal quality that unites them is their approach to reality and its uses in art - the refusal to be bound by literal fact, the interweaving of reality and fantasy, the transmutation of fact into poetry, often grotesque, oblique, playful, but always expressive of the writer's unique vision of life in his own, unique terms. ↗

— Mirra Ginsburg

#realism #russian-author #russian-literature #writers #writing

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#assembly-line #dejan-stojanovic #final #literature #literature-quotes

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#culture #art

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#nature #providence #art