Art Quote by Clive James Download Open image “First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.” — Clive James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Classic Fiction Firsts Interesting Rate Remains Science Science fiction Second rate
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science -- it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be… — Lord Rees Copy Share Image
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I've always liked science fiction as a way of commenting on ourselves and it's wrong that it is seen as less valid than other… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction. — Lynn Hershman Leeson Copy Share Image
Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London… — Clive James Copy Share Image
In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it… — Clive James Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked By various diseases of the intellect Or failing body. How am I still upright?… — clive james 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“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… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“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
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