Art Quote by Cyril Connolly Download Open image “The artist secretes nostalgia around life.” — Cyril Connolly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Life Nostalgia
I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia has always been a key player in my songwriting cause within that space I find a great deal of inspiration. — MO Copy Share Image
The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and you're reminded… — Massimiliano Gioni Copy Share Image
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“For what else is nostalgia but this? That immense ache in the heart that seems immeasurable, massive, spilling over the future that longs for… — Rica Bolipata-Santos Copy Share Image
An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered. — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly 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
