“What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“People say, “Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.”
Man sagt: „Studire, Künstler, die Natur!”
Es ist aber keine Kleinigkeit, aus dem Gemeinen das Edle, aus der Unform das Schöne zu entwickeln.
Maxim 191, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Die Kunst an und für sich selbst ist edel; deßhalb fürchtet sich der Künstler nicht vor dem Gemeinen. Ja indem er es aufnimmt, ist es schon geadelt, und so sehen wir die größten Künstler mit Kühnheit ihr Majestätsrecht ausüben.
Maxim 61, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
Billie Piper (1982) English singer, dancer and actress
Responding to notions that her role in Call Girl might inspire women to become prostitutes.
Guardian interview (2008)
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated.”
Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris
L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu. <br class="br">III: "Le Confiteor de l'artiste" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_III._Le_Confiteor_de_l%27artiste <br class="br">Le Spleen de Paris (1862) <br class="br">Source: Twenty Prose Poems
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Attributed to Thoreau, in The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose (1995) by Dan Millman, p. xi, and to Ralph Waldo Emerson in Promotion of Pharmaceuticals : Issues, Trends, Options (1993) by Dev S. Pathak, Alan Escovitz, and Suzan Kucukarslan, p. 74, but no occurrence of it prior to the 1990s has been located.
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“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”
Martin Scorsese (1942) American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist
Friedrich Nietzsche book On the Genealogy of Morality
Essay 1, Section 10
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)