art
“Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists.”
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
“Translating is the art of failure.”
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
“Exuberance is better than taste.”
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
“Music is the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts.”
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
“The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.”
“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”
“Art is nothing without form.”
“What is beautiful is moral. That is all there is to it.”
“Exuberance is better than taste.”
“One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.”
“The man is nothing, the work—everything.”
“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.”
“The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.”