"At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art."

Art, Music, Ambition, Beginning

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"At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect."

Quality

"I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything."

Talent

"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."

Technology

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."

Work

"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."

Trying

"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."

Learning

"I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper."

Music

"For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards."

First

"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."

Guitar

"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."

Guitar