Art Quote by Alexander Woollcott Download Open image “Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.” — Alexander Woollcott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Bathing Dirty Dirty water Entertainment Proust Reading Water
“Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale of the vacillations of the melancholic or the career of the ambitious. The heroine of Proust requires several finely-wrought pages in order to feel that she does not feel anything. It would seem that one might, at least… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share
“... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't seem to get beyond about… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I have depth. I've read Proust. No, wait, that was Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. My bad" Charley Davidson. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in… — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking... — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
