Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
"An Interest in Life" (1959)
“Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.”
— Max Euwe
Max Euwe, in: Fred Reinfeld (1956) Why You Lose at Chess, p. 180.
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Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non lasciatevi incantare da una bella opera d'arte, ispiratevi e create qualcosa di migliore.
Source: prevale.net
E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist
Source: Commonplace Book (1985), p. 224
Context: Going to Bits. This phrase me to day and is indeed the one I have been looking for; not tragic, not mortal disintegration; only a central weakness which prevents me from concentrating or settling down I have so wanted to write and write ahead. The phrase "obligatory creation" has haunted me. I have so wanted to get out of my morning bath promptly: have decided to do so beforehand, and have then lain in it as usual and watched myself not getting out. It looks as if there is a physical as well as a moral break in the orders I send out. I have plenty of interesting thoughts but keep losing them like the post cards I have written, or like my cap. I can't clear anything up yet interrupt a 'good read' in order to clear up. I hope tomorrow to copy out a piece of someone else's pose: it is the best device known to me for taking one out of inself, Plunge into anothers minutiae.' 31-1-61
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G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
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T.S. Eliot book Tradition and the Individual Talent
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
Context: What happens when a new work of art is created, is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them. The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new.
“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
“It was Homer who inspired the poet.”
Francis Wayland (1796–1865) President of Brown University
The Iliad and the Bible, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 609.
Variant: It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.
