"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. | Beauty | 4 bookmarks

"Art is science made clear."

Cocteau, Jean | Arts and Artists | 2 bookmarks

"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred | Ambition | 3 bookmarks

"The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out."

Drummond, John | Arts and Artists | 1 bookmarks

"In art as in love, instinct is enough."

France, Anatole | Arts and Artists | 1 bookmarks

"Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand."

Grass, Gunther | Arts and Artists | 2 bookmarks

"In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too."

Moarny, Suzanne | Loneliness | 1 bookmarks

"All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers."

Mccullers, Carson | Loneliness | 1 bookmarks

"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone."

Joplin, Janis | Loneliness | 3 bookmarks

"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert | Loneliness | 9 bookmarks