“The art of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.”
"On Will-Making" <br class="br"> 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.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
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.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
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.”
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
Howard S. Becker (1928) American sociologist
Source: Art Worlds (1982), p. 245 as quoted in: John Ross Hall, Mary Jo Neitz, Marshall Battani (2003) Sociology On Culture. p. 196.
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
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.”
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) American journalist
2010s, 2010, The joys of losing (2010)
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
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.”
Stephen King book Misery
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.
Martin Feldstein (1939–2019) American economist
"EMU and international conflict", 1997