We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 580
Be true to the game, because the will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too. -Michael Jordan 2.4K
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. 2.29K
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. 1.04K
I’m into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn’t feel true, I don’t want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that’s why I don’t always fit into the world of performing arts. 2.16K
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. 739
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. 1.1K
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff. 680
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. 671
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. 651
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. 639
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. 1.78K
