Art (17)

Aphorisms 17

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Work is love made visible. — Kahlil Gibran The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. — Rabindranath Tagore God is in the details. — Mies van der Rohe Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true. — Agostinho da Silva A good book is an event in my life. — Stendhal The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. — Richard Wright I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. — C.S. Lewis Stories only happen to people who can tell them. — Allan Gurganus Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. — Henry Louis Gates Jr. Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous. — Javier Marías I am a poet in deeds — not often in words. — Ian Fleming Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. — Neil Gaiman It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning… — Albert Einstein