Art Quote by Reinaldo Arenas Download Open image ““Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”” — Reinaldo Arenas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Books Writing
“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are not like… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Second, writing is survival. Any art, any good work, of course, is that.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.” — Bart J. Gilbertson Copy Share Image
“The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.” — Anne R. Allen Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing… — Chasta Schneider Copy Share Image
“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.” — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them. — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“Qué pasa, qué pasa. Y no sentí miedo. Y no sentí tristeza. Y no sentí nada. Porque todo eso lo había sentido tanto que… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.” — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“Like a lightning bug... Like a lightning bug?... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.” — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“Infinito —y no histórico— es Aquiles por su cólera y su amor, independientemente de que haya o no existido; como infinito será Cristo por… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“My sexual activity was all with animals. First there were the hens, then the goats and the sows, and after I had grown up… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There is always… — Reinaldo Arenas 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