Anthony Trollope Quotes
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
Anthony Trollope
Quotes to Explore
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
R. J. Cutler
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
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Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.
Ted Naifeh
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
Caio Fonseca
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Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
Hans Hofmann
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The motto of his Robinson Jeffers’s work is 'More! More!'-but as Tolstoy says, 'A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion'; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: 'A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.'
Randall Jarrell
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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
Bess Myerson
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My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.
James Wolk
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My chemistry teacher wanted me to do chemistry, and my art teacher wanted me to do art. Fashion seemed like a good in-between - using your brain but being creative.
Maria Cornejo
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
Maya Angelou
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Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
Patti Smith
