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In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.


Eugenio Montale

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Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europ...
JONATHAN GALASSI In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, ...
HENRI MATISSE Perfected young girl inside of an equation for an imperfect place, Seamstressed only for the one wit...
ROSEMARIE YUSEN Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of th...
EUGENIO MONTALE Too many lives are needed to make just one.
EUGENIO MONTALE The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual respon...
EUGENIO MONTALE Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihi...
EUGENIO MONTALE Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so af...
EUGENIO MONTALE There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t...
EUGENIO MONTALE Holidays - Have no pity
EUGENIO MONTALE The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet e...
EUGENIO MONTALE I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
EUGENIO MONTALE Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thi...
EUGENIO MONTALE I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one...
EUGENIO MONTALE True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated peo...
EUGENIO MONTALE Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to m...
EUGENIO MONTALE For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of addin...
EUGENIO MONTALE Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
EUGENIO MONTALE Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale
e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad og...
EUGENIO MONTALE Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word...
EUGENIO MONTALE This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the...
EUGENIO MONTALE “Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a
flickering light, to the fee...
EUGENIO MONTALE Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life i...
EUGENIO MONTALE Io sono abituato a cibarmi
di nuvole e lontananza.
EUGENIO MONTALE There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occur...
EUGENIO MONTALE Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new w...
EUGENIO MONTALE Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. B...
EUGENIO MONTALE The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
EUGENIO MONTALE However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
EUGENIO MONTALE Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil a...
EUGENIO MONTALE I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
EUGENIO MONTALE But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, ...
EUGENIO MONTALE It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be conside...
EUGENIO MONTALE I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon th...
EUGENIO MONTALE About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces ...
PABLO PICASSO While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that i...
ODILON REDON In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all...
AMIT RAY You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.
DIANE SETTERFIELD I don’t regret wasting my time, for I had been waiting for nobody since I wasn’t born.
VIKRANT PARSAI Research is the art of seeing what everyone else has seen, and doing what no-one else has done.
ANONYMOUS Everyone complains but no one takes responsibility. And that's okay, because responsibility isn't fo...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Always adore the dreamer,for the art of dreaming is one of life's hardest ventures.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. T...
HENRY MILLER Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
JOHN RUSKIN Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
GEORGE SAND The universe is infinite, so there is room for everyone, for every belief, for every custom, and for...
STEPHEN RICHARDS You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
CHARLES IVES Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY On this earth our relationship among ourselves should be of uptmost importance than our relationship...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. Th...
JAMES GLEICK Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
JORGE LUIS BORGES The reality that no one can change is that China is becoming more important for the United States.
JING HUANG Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm always looking for something new, always looking for something different. It's going to force ma...
ANDY MCGIVERN No one is nothing. Everyone has a place and a purpose. Some choose their purpose and others have it ...
E.J. DIVITT Art is for everyone. A lot of people think that art is this thing [reserved] for a select group of e...
CONNIE CATION Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation!
DAVID BRANDT BERG Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develo...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Horror is the law of the world of living creatures, and civilization is concerned with masking that ...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
CARL ANDRE IN LIFE, THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT FOR EVERYONE.
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
ENID BLYTON History teachers help children climb mountains.
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for ...
C. JOYBELL C. It goes without saying that to make so much out of so little is a tour de force, ... It's what every...
DAVID LANG For me, art is always a kind of theater.
DAMIEN HIRST Sometimes life could be quite ''hard'', but who in reality is making it harder for everyone? me or y...
VICTOR WERNET You can’t be “it” for everyone. In fact, if you try to please everyone, you will please no one...
AMBER HURDLE Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.
DEBASISH MRIDHA No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderst...
JOHN RUSKIN No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderst...
JOHN RUSKIN Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one rea...
ALMA GLUCK We have one law for everyone and no one is above the law. We are not going to tolerate chaos after t...
MAHMOUD ABBAS The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.
TOM HODGKINSON Light is god and God is light; For without light we’d have no consistent perception of reality, an...
BREANNA CASELLA In reality, however, an artist is a product of art
HAROLD ROSENBERG Reality is always different than dream. Reality is hard and nude fact . You need to accept it as it ...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Reality is always different then dream. Reality is hard and nude fact . You need to accept it as it ...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is g...
CHINUA ACHEBE Without the beast there is no comparable for beauty - you must have both in art and in life
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality a...
MIUCCIA PRADA The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one rea...
ALMA GLUCK He wasn't used to people saying no, and Eby felt sorry for him, the way she'd always felt sorry for ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one reali...
SIDNEY MADWED Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; a...
JEAN TINGUELY The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!...
VICTORIA ADDINO Either everyone is right , or everyone is wrong. Either no one is right or no one is wrong.
LESTER LIM JUN KAI I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for mode...
LARRY ELLISON All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamel...
W. E. B. DU BOIS The reality is, we have to get rid of faith-based arbitration, no matter what. The only way we can p...
HOMA ARJOMAND There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is...
MAO ZEDONG In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no bus...
DON TAPSCOTT BELIEVE IN YOURSELF ALWAYS; FOR NO ONE ELSE CAN EVER DO THAT FOR YOU BETTER THAN YOURSELF
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO.

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EUGENIO MONTALE Too many lives are needed to make just one.
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EUGENIO MONTALE Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihi...
EUGENIO MONTALE Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so af...
EUGENIO MONTALE There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t...
EUGENIO MONTALE Holidays - Have no pity
EUGENIO MONTALE The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet e...
EUGENIO MONTALE I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
EUGENIO MONTALE Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thi...
EUGENIO MONTALE I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one...
EUGENIO MONTALE True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated peo...
EUGENIO MONTALE Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to m...
EUGENIO MONTALE For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of addin...
EUGENIO MONTALE Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
EUGENIO MONTALE Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale
e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad og...
EUGENIO MONTALE Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word...
EUGENIO MONTALE This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the...
EUGENIO MONTALE “Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a
flickering light, to the fee...
EUGENIO MONTALE Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life i...
EUGENIO MONTALE Io sono abituato a cibarmi
di nuvole e lontananza.
EUGENIO MONTALE There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occur...
EUGENIO MONTALE Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new w...
EUGENIO MONTALE Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. B...
EUGENIO MONTALE The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
EUGENIO MONTALE However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
EUGENIO MONTALE Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil a...
EUGENIO MONTALE I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
EUGENIO MONTALE But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, ...
EUGENIO MONTALE It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be conside...
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