December 29, 2021 Rhonda Pryor

Quotes for a New Year

While everyone’s on a well-earned break I thought I’d drop a little food for thought into your inbox. Some thoughtful, pertinent, insightful quotes to ponder over the summer.

See if you agree…

 

Stella Adler: thoughtful pertinent insightful quotes on art and creativity

Stella Adler, photographer unknown, c. 1937

 

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

                                             Stella Adler

 

 

William S. Burroughs: : thoughtful pertinent insightful quotes on art and creativity

William S Burroughs, Evening Standard/Getty Images

 

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

 (Interview, The Paris Review)
William S. Burroughs

 

 

George Bernard Shaw: thoughtful pertinent insightful quotes on art and creativity

George Bernard Shaw, Yousuf Karsh, 1943

 

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

                                                   George Bernard Shaw

 

 

Aristotle: thoughtful pertinent insightful quotes on art and creativity

Aristotle, Getty Images

 

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

                            Aristotle

 

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