Variant: Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion".
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
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French writer 1858–1915Related quotes
Bernard to Leigh-Cheri, in Phase III, Ch. 46
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
“Art loves chance, and chance loves art.”
Agathon
(-448–-401 BC) Athenian tragic poet
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, sec. 4, 1140a.
C. Rajagopalachari
(1878–1972) Political leader
Rajagopalachari (12 February 1949), quoted in [Rajmohan Gandhi, Rajaji: A Life, http://books.google.com/books?id=JjPHeRd7_UYC&pg=PA475, 1997, Penguin Books India, 978-0-14-026967-3, 286]
Spoken by C.R when Mahatma Gandhi (Bapu) was assassinated.
“I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love…”
William Morris
(1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
"The History of Pattern-Designing" lecture (1882) The Collected Works of William Morris (1910 - 1915) Vol. 22.
Context: I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love... It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigour of the earlier world?
“The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.”
Albert Ellis
(1913–2007) American psychologist
Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 5 (p. 37)
Bertolt Brecht
(1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"Freedom for Whom", as translated in Brecht on Brecht : An Improvisation (1967) by George Tabori, p. 18
Context: Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles
Are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin.
And so, instead of embracing them, Let us demand the freedom of the elbow
To knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat,
Provided he loves peace,
Is a greater lover of the arts
Than any so-called art-lover
Who loves the arts of war.
“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Anatole France
(1844–1924) French writer
En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.
Le Jardin d'Épicure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)
“The chief element of creation is love and the chief action of love is Art.”
Laxmi Prasad Devkota
(1909–1959) Nepali poet
कला र जीवन (Art and Life)
Art and Life