I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love. – Jennifer Elisabeth
Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods. – W.H. Auden
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. – Jacob Bronowski
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. – Peter Shaffer
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself. – Flannery O’Connor
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky. – Gustave Flaubert
You’ve always lived a life of pretense, not a real life– a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real. – Thomas Bernhard
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; — not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. – Henry David Thoreau
You don’t make art out of good intentions. – Gustave Flaubert
Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream. – Charles Baxter
Well, life isn’t a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world’s most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?! – Marisha Pessl
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I’ve noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. – Marcel Duchamp
