Music, Art and Madness Quotations and Proverbs

* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.

Added for Jun 2006:

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art.

If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.
  • Pamela Anderson (1967- ) _Movieline_ [November 2002]
I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.
  • Rod Stewart (1946- )_Elle_ [December 1986]
I've been drivin' all night; my hand's wet on the wheel And there's an unseen force that drives my heel.
  • Golden Earring, _Radar Love_
Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
  • E.R. Beadle
'Tis you who makes my friends my foes, 'Tis you who makes me wear old clothes;
Ha, ha, ha, you and me, Little brown jug don't I love thee.
  • portion of lyrics to _Little Brown Jug_ Joseph Eastburn Winner, 1837-1918
Art and mathematics are both about seeing relationships. Creativity is about seeing from a new viewpoint.
  • Nat Friedman, math professor State University of New York at Albany _Fragments of Infinity_ by Ivars Peterson
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
  • Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
  • Cyril Connelly, Enemies of Promise, 1938
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
  • Ford Madox Ford, _Joseph Conrad_, 1924
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
  • Bertrand Arthur William Russell

 

 

 

 

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