Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950) Cuban writer
Source: Dirty Havana Trilogy
“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 80
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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965Related quotes
“Art isn't meaningless… It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“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)
William Kapell (1922–1953) American classical pianist
Quoted by Claudia Cassidy, " In Memory of William Kapell, Who Left Us Richer in Music http://www.williamkapell.com/articles/cassidy.html", Chicago Tribune (October 30, 1953).
“To live your brief life rightly, isn't that enough?”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book X, 31
“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
