Art Quote by Paul Theroux Download Open image ““But art should require no instrument but memory.”” — Paul Theroux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
“There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“We must remember, however, that art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us. It might be a universal language… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don’t you think?” — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.” — Richard Matturro Copy Share Image
“Tell me something boss. What do you think is the highest form of art? 'Literature," he answered without hesitation. 'Painters and sculptors require elaborate… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by time.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“You can not teach art, it's not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.” — Sabina Nore Copy Share Image
“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“You may not make sense out of the incomprehensible, but you can make art.” — John Dufress Copy Share Image
“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?” — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever. — Paul Theroux 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
