"Art is a gift: you create and then……" — Yann Martel
"Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine."
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214 Quotes by Yann Martel
Yann Martel has 214 quotes on this site.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of…
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Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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