You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Winston S. Churchill
Nr. 2
Art is the right hand of Nature.
Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco, 1783
The latter only gave us being, but the former gave us men.
Nr. 3
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art.
Goethe, Elective Affinities, 1809
Nr. 4
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, 1921
Not to go to the theatre is like making one’s toilet without a mirror.
Schopenhauer, Parerga und Paraipomena, 1851
Nr. 5
Art is a jealous mistress.
Emerson, Wealth, in The Conduct of Life, 1860
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Nr. 7
It is the glory and good of art that art remains the one way possible of speaking the truth.
Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, 1868
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible—truer than the truth.
Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950
Nr. 8
It is through Art, and through only Art … that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
Oscar Wilde, “Intentions,” 1891
Art is a revolt against fate.
Andre Malraux, Les Voix du Silence, 1951
Nr. 9
Art always serves beauty and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
Boris Pasternak, “Doctor Zhivago” [trans. Hayward and Harari, 1958]
I don’t know where the world would be without art.
Sylvester Stallone [on French TV, 1989]
Nr. 10
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they chose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
William Faulkner, 1958
An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he likes, putting one foot in front of the other with the hope that he’ll arrive before death overtakes him.
John Cage, “Silence,” 1961