Famous Quotes - Culture and Art
good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. (maurice de vlaminck, french painter)
Simply put, excellent literature is language that contains extremely rich meanings. (Ezra Poud, American poet)
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree (ezra poud, american poet)
Humor has been appropriately described by others as "with meaning" A sincere expression of experience, a mixture of thinking and play.” (American writer Ezra Pound)
Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. (mark twain, american novelist)
I create just to improve myself own beauty. (Jack London, American writer)
i write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. (jack london, american writer)
Songs should be listened to with the heart and felt with the brain. (French writer Victor Hugo v)
in music one must think with the heart and feel with the brains. victor hugo, french writer jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. (paulwhiteman, american conductor)
Jazz music makes your muscle tissue itch, symphony music stretches your life. (American music conductor Whiteman p)
iterature is a kind of intellectual light which, like the light of the sun, may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like. (samuse johnson, british writer and critic)
Literature is a kind of rational star. Like the sun, it can sometimes make us see things we don't like. (Henryfielding, British writer)
Love and scandale the best sweeteners of tea. (henryfielding, british writer)
Love and scandale are the best sweeteners of tea. Topic discussion. (British writer Fielding h)
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. (william congreve. british dramatist)
Songs have solace A rugged mind, a grace that softens stubborn rocks or makes a thousand-year-old tree bow its head. (French playwright Congreve w)
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. (john erskine, american educator)
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. Do not use language that expresses despicable or sarcastic things. (American educator Erskine j)
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a peaking picture. (simonides, ancient greek writer)
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a peaking picture. Poetry is a painting with sound.
(Ancient Greek culture writer Simonites)
Rules and modesty destroy genius and art. (william hazlitt, british essayist)
Rules and modesty will destroy genius and plastic arts. (French essayist Hazlitt w)
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face their own. (jonathan swift, british writer)
Satire is A mirror, the viewer often sees everyone's face but cannot see himself. (British writer Taylor Swift j)
some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have. (aesop, ancient greek fable writer)
People who can’t eat red grapes say sour grapes . (ephraem syrus, american writer)
speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. (ephraem syrus, american writer)
Language Expression is the mirror of the soul; a person only needs to speak, and what he says is the mirror of his soul. (American writer Olois)
Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (arthur schnabel, austrian pianist)
The sun may burn you, food may harm you, words may curse you, paintings may insult you, songs will not punish you, I can only pray for you.
(German pianist Schnabel a)
the art of giving presents is to give something which others cannot buy for themselves. (alan alexander milne, british humorist)***3 pages, currently No. 1 Page 123