“An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.”
~ Joseph Conrad, b. 3 December 1857
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Evelyn Waugh (b. October 28): “An artist must be a reactionary” & other quotes on writing
28 Oct
Evelyn Waugh (born 28 October 1903, died 10 April 1966) was an English author, born into a family of publishers and writers. Waugh’s first book, A Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was published in 1928. Soon afterwards his first novel, Decline and Fall, appeared and his career was sensationally launched. Evelyn Waugh wrote 15 novels and several acclaimed travel books, two additional biographies, and an autobiography, A Little Learning.
Quotes on writing:
- I put words down and push them around a bit.
- There are no poetic ideas, only poetic utterances.
- Some people think in pictures, some in ideas. I think entirely in words.
- One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
- An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
- Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
- Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
- I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
- I used to have a rule when I reviewed books as a young man: never to give an unfavorable notice to a book I hadn’t read. I find even this simple rule is flagrantly broken now.
- Don’t analyse yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.
Beck (b. July 8): “I don’t have enough hair to be a genius.”
9 Jul
“I’m the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don’t have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.”
~ Beck, b. 8 July 1970
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (b. March 10): “Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.”
10 Mar
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, born 10 March 1772 and died 12 January 1829, was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist and indologist.
Quotes on writing:
- Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
- Only a man who is at one with the world can be at one with himself.
- An artist is he for whom the goal and centre of life is to form his mind.
- Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
- Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
Kat von D (b. March 8th): “I was born naked, waiting for life to write itself on my skin.”
8 Mar
“Like everyone else, I was born naked and screaming, waiting for my life to write itself on my skin.”
~ Kat von D, b. 8 March 1982
Piet Mondrian (b. March 7th): “The artist is a channel.”
7 Mar
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
~ Piet Mondrian, b. 7 March 1872
Yoko Ono (b. February 18): “Everybody’s an artist.”
18 Feb
“Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.”
~ Yoko Ono, b. 18 February 1933
Jeff Koons (b. January 21): “I try to be a truthful artist…”
21 Jan
“I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger.”
~ Jeff Koons, b. 21 January 1955
Joseph Conrad (b. December 3): “An artist is a man of action…”
3 Dec
“An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.”
~ Joseph Conrad, b. 3 December 1857
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Evelyn Waugh (b. October 28): “An artist must be a reactionary” & other quotes on writing
28 OctEvelyn Waugh (born 28 October 1903, died 10 April 1966) was an English author, born into a family of publishers and writers. Waugh’s first book, A Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was published in 1928. Soon afterwards his first novel, Decline and Fall, appeared and his career was sensationally launched. Evelyn Waugh wrote 15 novels and several acclaimed travel books, two additional biographies, and an autobiography, A Little Learning.
Quotes on writing:
- I put words down and push them around a bit.
- There are no poetic ideas, only poetic utterances.
- Some people think in pictures, some in ideas. I think entirely in words.
- One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
- An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
- Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
- Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
- I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
- I used to have a rule when I reviewed books as a young man: never to give an unfavorable notice to a book I hadn’t read. I find even this simple rule is flagrantly broken now.
- Don’t analyse yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.
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