Quote by

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.
– Alastair Reynolds

Related Quotes:

  1. She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts. – Hubert Martin
  2. A city’s only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. – Alastair Reynolds
  3. History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds? – Alastair Reynolds
  4. It’s not how far you’ve come that matters. It’s where you’ve come from. – Alastair Reynolds
  5. It is always better to try and fail than not to try. – Alastair Reynolds
  6. Still, it was vision, or at least vision’s idiot cousin. – Alastair Reynolds
  7. Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over. – Alastair Reynolds
  8. Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. – William Inge
  9. God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter. – Shannon L Alder
  10. The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice. – Mark Horton
  11. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  12. Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I’d like to believe I’m an expert. – Dennis Sharpe
  13. Existence of existence depends on what exists on your existence!! – Balkrishn Sanmotra
  14. The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing. – Richard Dawkins
  15. I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism. – Abigail Reynolds
  16. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  17. Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
  18. In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible. – Barry Webster
  19. If you want to understand what’s most important to a society, don’t examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings. – Joseph Campbell
  20. Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings. – Mario Vargas Llosa
  21. Your courage will be tested during the adversity as well as during the change. – Amit Kalantri
  22. If a man does not treat you like a princess during courtship, he will not treat you like a queen during marriage. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  23. Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way – James MacDonald
  24. When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  25. In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. – Erol Ozan
  26. Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context. – Pearl Zhu
  27. Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations. – Michael Grant
  28. Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. – Jasper Fforde
  29. Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. – Jasper Fforde
  30. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  31. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
  32. We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
  33. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
  34. We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
  35. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
  36. The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
  37. The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. – Julia Cameron
  38. It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction. – Alastair Bruce
  39. If the spirit of your imagination is limited, your journey of discovery will be very short. – Alastair Agutter
  40. An informed world is not only for today, but a legacy to shape a better world and future for tomorrow. – Alastair Agutter

More Quotes

, , , , , , , , ,