Books and art

Books                                                                        [1697 - 1054]   

A book lover never goes to bed alone.

The books are wonderful. They are a replacement for people, a way to get to people and thus get to know people.

Through books, I can get to know people without having to spend time with them.

Literature transmits undeniable, condensed experiences from one generation to another. In this way, literature becomes a living memory of humanity.

A popular writer writes what people think. A genius makes people think differently.

The main qualities of a good storyteller; contempt for the truth and a deep respect for the probable.

Lies and literature have always been close friends.

If you do not read good books, you have no advantage over those who cannot read them.

A learned fool is dumber than an ignorant fool.

Reading quote books is a good occupation for us uneducated people.

Blessed are the strange people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours; because they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

When you write down all the good things you should have done and leave out all the bad things you did - these are memoirs.

About writing: Choose the shortest of two sentences, the simplest of two words, the clearest of two images.

Good aphorisms reveal man, bad the writer.

Proverbs are to speech what salt is to food.

Quotation; a way of repeating someone else's words incorrectly.

Art

The present sees the new in art most easily, posterity the eternal.

An artist must not only say what other people cannot, but also what they dare not say.

Progress in art does not consist in erasing boundaries, but in getting to know them better.

Avant-gardes are people who don't really know where they're going, but get there first.

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