“The art of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.”
"On Will-Making"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
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“Art consists in making others feel what we feel.”
Ibid., p. 231
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A arte consiste em fazer os outros sentir o que nós sentimos.
“Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune.”
On His Own Character http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=skoc (1761)
“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. Life doesn't make sense.”
Source: Art Worlds (1982), p. 245 as quoted in: John Ross Hall, Mary Jo Neitz, Marshall Battani (2003) Sociology On Culture. p. 196.
Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 7
“The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.”
2010s, 2010, The joys of losing (2010)
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
1770s, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
Source: A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Reprinted from the Original Ed.,
“Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
Misery (1987)
Context: Writers remember everything... especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory.