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David Hare : The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Cyril Connolly : " Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. " # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Edmund White : " It seemed strange to me that someone who painted big, scary abstractions should have been so commonsensical in her literary tastes, though later I would discover that twelve-tone composers read Keats just as experimental poets listened to Glenn Miller — few people are avant-garde outside their own domain. I suppose that as Midwesterners, the children of chemical engineers and homemakers, we experienced the arts as so foreign, even so preposterously unreasonable, that once we’d decided to embrace them we did so with lots of conviction and little discrimination. Surely it was no accident that T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, the two great poetic synthesists of our day, the very men who had ransacked all of world culture and could refer in the same poem to the Buddha and to Sophocles or to Confucius and to Jefferson — it was no accident that they were both from the heartland. Public-library intellectuals, magpies of knowledge, like most autodidacts we were incapable of evaluating our sources. As a teen-ager, I tried to write verse like Milton’s; later, I wanted to write novels like Nabokov’s. In a novel I wrote in college, I imitated Evelyn Waugh. If someone had said to me, "But do you, the graceless son of a Cincinnati broker of chemical equipment, do you seriously imagine that you can just write a Renaissance Christian epic or something in the style of a Cambridge-educated Russian aristocrat or of the spokesman of the Bright Young Things of London circa 1925?" — if someone had spoken like this to me, I wouldn’t even have understood his point. " # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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John Galsworthy : " Writing not long ago to my oldest literary friend, I expressed in a moment of heedless sentiment the wish that we might have again one of our talks of long-past days, over the purposes and methods of our art. And my friend, wiser than I, as he has always been, replied with this doubting phrase "Could we recapture the zest of that old time?" I would not like to believe that our faith in the value of imaginative art has diminished, that we think it less worth while to struggle for glimpses of truth and for the words which may pass them on to other eyes; or that we can no longer discern the star we tried to follow; but I do fear, with him, that half a lifetime of endeavour has dulled the exuberance which kept one up till morning discussing the ways and means of aesthetic achievement. We have discovered, perhaps with a certain finality, that by no talk can a writer add a cubit to his stature, or change the temperament which moulds and colours the vision of life he sets before the few who will pause to look at it. And so — the rest is silence, and what of work we may still do will be done in that dogged muteness which is the lot of advancing years. Other times, other men and modes, but not other truth. Truth, though essentially relative, like Einstein's theory, will never lose its ever-new and unique quality — perfect proportion; for Truth, to the human consciousness at least, is but that vitally just relation of part to whole which is the very condition of life itself. And the task before the imaginative writer, whether at the end of the last century or all these aeons later, is the presentation of a vision which to eye and ear and mind has the implicit proportions of Truth. " # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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George Santayana : " O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul’s invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art. " # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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V S Pritchett : " I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves. " # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Tom Zé : " I don't make art, I make spoken and sung journalism. " # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Rainer Maria Rilke : " Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature. " # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Clement Greenberg : " It belongs to journalism — and to the millennial complex from which so many journalists and journalist intellectuals suffer in our day — that each new phase of Modernist art should be hailed as the start of a whole new epoch in art, marking a decisive break with all the customs and conventions of the past. Each time, a kind of art is expected so unlike all previous kinds of art, and so free from norms of practice or taste, that everybody, regardless of how informed or uninformed he happens to be, can have his say about it. And each time, this expectation has been disappointed, as the phase of Modernist art in question finally takes its place in the intelligible continuity of taste and tradition. Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is — among other things — continuity, and unthinkable without it. Lacking the past of art, and the need and compulsion to maintain its standards of excellence, Modernist art would lack both substance and justification. " # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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W H Auden : " It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. " # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Kenneth Tynan : " One would have thought that the notion of an impersonal critic was as patently absurd as that of an impersonal person: yet playwrights still cherish it as a sort of holy ideal. Admittedly, we all make mystiques: but this one is particularly wishful. The man who asks for an anonymous, impersonal criticism is trying to elevate criticism to the status of a science; whereas it is, I am afraid, only an art. The critic's business is to write readable English: the playwright's to write speakable English. Beyond that it is every man for himself. (p. 61) " # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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David Hare: " The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." # Belief # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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David Hare: " Smiles are the language of love." # Smile # Love # Language

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David Hare: " Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides." # Mind # Adversity # Prosperity

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David Hare: " Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature." # Poetry and Poets

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David Hare: " No one but a fool is always right." # Fools and Foolishness

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David Hare: " Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together." # Heart # Work # Friends and Friendship

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David Hare: " Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth." # Heaven # Freedom # Power

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David Hare: " To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin." # Honor # Sin # God

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David Hare: " The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry." # Poetry and Poets

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David Hare: " Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather." # Resolution # Weather # Love

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