Famous quotes about art, work and professions
If I had not existed, someone else would have written to me. William Faulkner
This story is true since I have imagined it from beginning to end. Boris Vian
Working I have managed to ascend from nothing to the most extreme poverty. Groucho Marx
If a craftsman were sure to dream for twelve hours that he is king, I think he would be almost as happy as a king who dreamed twelve hours as a craftsman. Blaise pascal
It is terribly sad that talent lasts longer than beauty. Oscar Wilde
Beauty is only visual, more real in a movie or in stone than in three living dimensions. Naomi wolf
There is no beauty without something strange in its proportions. Francis Bacon
In a flock of white doves, a black crow adds more beauty even than the swan's candor. Giovanni Boccaccio
All love poems are ridiculous. They wouldn't be love poems if they weren't ridiculous. Fernando Pessoa
Everything matters in art, except the matter. Oscar Wilde
In many things in life, industriousness can achieve more than genius.
If you love what you do, it will never be a job. Confucius
Art does not consist in representing new things, but in representing with novelty. Ugo Foscolo
Poetry is a weapon loaded with the future. Gabriel Celaya
Are not poets always on the side of justice? Salvatore Quasimodo
It must be beautiful, nothing is understood. Molière
When I wake up every morning, the greatest joy is mine: to be Salvador Dalí. Salvador Dali
The great style is born when the beautiful obtains the victory over the enormous. Friedrich Nietzsche
One is not what it is because of what you write, but because of what you have read. Jorge Luis Borges
There is only nothing for those who know nothing to produce. Johann Wolfang Von Goethe
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
Being a poet is not my ambition, it is my way of being alone. Fernando Pessoa
You don't always paint what you see, but what you feel. Vincent van Gogh
The art of writing is saying a lot with few words. Anton Chekhov
I often needed a whole morning of hard work to write a paragraph. Ernest Hemingway
Science is the consciousness of species. In life we deal with individuals; In science, we deal with species. Ludwig Feuerbach
The journalist is stimulated by the term. Write worse if you have time. Karl Kraus
Every emotion has its voice and its breath. Michael McCallion
The use determines the function. Frederick Alexander
Idle people tend to feel more tired than those who work. Michael Levine
It is not about making windows but drilling holes. Clorindo Testa
Let's work without theorizing; It is the only way to make life bearable. Voltaire
In my years I wish to convey calm, not wonder, because in art what endures is emotion. Raul Soldi
Life doesn't have to be perfect to look wonderful. Annete Funicello
Art is made to disturb, science to reassure. Georges Braque
The mission of art is not to copy nature, but to express it. Honoré de Balzac
Before I was a nobody, because of writing a book, suddenly, people paid attention to me. Frank McCourt
To succeed, dedicate yourself to teaching 30 years and write a best seller. Frank McCourt
Spring inspires a lot of desire to travel, a lot of desire to work in the garden and a bit of bad poetry. Bern Williams
A book, like a trip, begins with restlessness and ends with melancholy. José de Vasconcelos
I need literature to understand the world. Alberto Mangel
Instant replay existed in books much earlier than in televised sports. Bern Williams
All my pain has passed to the literature. Juan Gelman
One of the disadvantages of having nothing to do is that you cannot take a break.
A psychiatrist is a guy who asks you many very expensive questions that your wife asks you for free. Osho
I am surprised that a fortune teller does not laugh when he sees a colleague. Marco Tulio Cicero
Art is, in a way, a critique of reality. Arturo Graff
There are two types of diseases: those that heal on their own, and therefore the doctor is not necessary, or those that no one cures, in which the doctor is not necessary either. Enrique Jardiel
If a writer does not wish to be in death trance, he should not wish for another writer to admire him. Because when a writer admires another, he already knows what he does with him: shoot him. Enrique Jardiel
What is read without any effort, has always been written with great effort. Enrique Jardiel
Music is an art very close to quantum mechanics. Juan Ignacio Cirac.
True art is born of suffering. To create and manifest fully you need some emotional stability. But, before, the source is pain, difficulties, experience ... Antonio Chenel (Antoñete)
All art consists in giving the being to something. Aristotle
Art is foolishness. Jean Arthur Rimbaud
I can't stand the artist whose main vocation is provocation. I think the great provocateurs are without trying. Pedro Almodovar
If they proposed to burn all my movies, I would. I don't care about art, but people. Luis Buñuel
I admit only one thing that is not natural: the work of art. Andre Gide
The creator does not have to have limitations of any nature. Juan Carlos Castagnino
In art there are more difficult simplicity than the more complicated complexities. Aldous Huxley
To live, a work of art does not need to be beautiful or ugly. It just needs life. Elmer Diktonius
Artists are generally less happy than men of science. Bertrand Russell
Materialize the spiritual until it is palpable, spiritualize the material until it is invisible: that is the whole secret of art. Benavente Hyacinth
Nothing is more useful to man than those arts that have no use. Ovid
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace. Hermann Hesse
Art is the expression of the deepest feelings along the simplest path. Albert Einstein
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. Emilio Zola
The artist brings to the world something that did not exist before, and does so without destroying anything. John updike
Every work of art is an attempt to rationalize a conflict of emotions in the spirit of the artist. Robert Graves
If the world were obvious, art would not exist. Art helps us penetrate the opacity of the world. Albert camus
In art, the thesis must become a spontaneous idea, a feeling. Konstantin Stanislavski
Art is the expression of a thought through an emotion or, in other words, a general truth through a particular lie. Fernando Pessoa
The artist is a madman who, perhaps, has a higher level of lucidity than the rest of the people, since he has found a way to exorcise his personal ghosts through his creation. Luis Eduardo Aute
Art is the feeling of truth. Alexander Blok
There are known and unknown things. And in between are the doors. Jim Morrison
I will always be a man of words. More than a bird man. Jim Morrison
A work of art is an eternal joy. John keats
All art is based on nonconformity. Ben shalm
Art is a must-have item, such as bread, wine or a good winter coat. Just as the man's stomach growls to receive food, his spirit feels increasingly hungry for art. Irving stone
In art, it truly original repugnant to the masses. Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Nothing has to do the art with the truth. Wolfgang Borchert
No artist sees things as they really are. If I saw them like that, I would stop being an artist. Oscar Wilde
The artist is a liar, but the art is true. Francois Mauriac
Work is an invasion of our privacy. Woody Allen
Art is the most beautiful of lies. Claude Debussy
Simplicity, very difficult simplicity, is a matter of method. Do the following and you will have hit the great style at once: place one thing after another. Nothing else; this is all. José Martinez Ruiz
All art is imitation of nature. Seneca
The only reward that can be expected from the cultivation of literature is disdain if one fails and hate if one succeeds. Voltaire
For a large majority of people, television is a variety of tranquilizer that plugs instead of swallowing. Anonymous
To succeed you simply have to work two hours more than the others. José María García
It is not enough to work; It is necessary to be exhausted every day at work. Auguste Rodín
Work is everything we are required to do and play is everything we are not required to do. Mark Twain
When more work is when I don't work, if I didn't work, life would stop being interested. Joan Miro
A good remedy against yuppie disease: invest more time in your work than work in your time. Friedrich Durrenmatt
For those who have no religion, our god is work. Paul Bowles
Intense work has never killed anyone. Men die of boredom, due to psychological conflicts and diseases. Truly, the more your staff works, the happier and healthier it will be. David Ogilvy
There is only two means to get rid of the nightmare of the relentless passage of time: pleasure and work. Pleasure exhausts and work fortifies. Let's choose. Working is less boring than having fun. Charles Baudelaire
Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to hit it. Vladimir Maiakovsky
If work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have left everything to them. Lane kirkland
When work is a pleasure, life is beautiful. But when it is imposed on us, life is slavery. Maximum Gorky
