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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."
"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."
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