Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“(an excellent man, with whom I am sorry now that I did not converse more often, for, even if he cared nothing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Compared with that of a great artist, the friendliness of a great nobleman, however charming it may be, seems like play-acting, like… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It must be admitted that the results of this method of interpreting the art of making presents were not always happy. The… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in this, I said to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And more even than the painter, the writer, in order to achieve volume and substance, in order to attain to generality and,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Formerly, in my attempts to isolate this talent, I deducted, so to speak, from what I heard, the part itself, a part,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
