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FELLINI ~ ON ART

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
Federico Fellini

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA ~ DREAMS AND VISIONS

in Art & the Unconscious Mind/Passion Of Art by

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

Oskar Kokoschka

IGOR STRAVINSKY ~ GREAT ARTISTS

in The Melody of Art by

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky

HENRY MILLER ~ THE LONELINESS OF AN ARTIST

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

ROBERT MUSIL ~ THE MEANING OF POETRY

in Poetical Visions by

“Ultimately a poem, and the mystery of it, cuts the meaning of the world clear, where it is bound fast by thousands of ordinary words …”

Robert Musil

Austrian author (1880-1942) of the famous novel The Man without Qualities

COLETTE ~ ON HUMOR

in Just a bit of everything and everyone.../The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”

Colette

EDVARD MUNCH ~ A LIFE IN ANXIETY

in Just a bit of everything and everyone.../Passion Of Art by

“From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation. And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?”

Edvard Munch

EMILY DICKINSON ~ ON POETRY

in Poetical Visions by

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these”
Emily Dickinson (American Poet, 1830-1886)

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ WHAT DO WE NEED IN LIFE?

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”

Virginia Woolf

CHAIM POTOK ~ A WORLD WITHOUT PATRIOTISM

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Chaim Potok
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