“All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.”
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)
“"Art" is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers…what we call art is a game.”
Alternating Current (1967)
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“The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented.”
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 114
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Context: The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!
“Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.”
William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 12, Writing About Yourself: The Memoir, p. 99.
“Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.”
Richard Franck (1858–1938) German composer
Northern Memoirs, written in 1658 and published in 1694 along with another work by Franck, The Contemplative and Practical Angler
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American politician, 41st President of the United States
George H. W. Bush, Speech at Carnegie Mellon University (10 April 1980)
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
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“All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
“Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)