…that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.
– Frank Lentricchia
Related Quotes:
- Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create… – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Don’t just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for ‘create art’ and see if it fits). – Richie Norton
- 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
- Only the past is real. – Frank Lentricchia
- Whether it’s trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable–all communication is rhetoric in action. – Leonard Koren
- Life is made up of Moments. Moments create Days, days create Months, months create Years, years create LIFE. Lose the Moment and you lose Life. – RVM
- Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful.  I don’t care what it is. Create it. – Jill Telford
- Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves. – Destiny Allison
- Don’t just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. – Richie Norton
- The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries
- Thoughts and feelings produce actions. Sinful thoughts and feelings produce sinful actions. – Sunday Adelaja
- Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. – Seth Godin
- 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
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Art is excitement which if we can’t create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others. – Vincent Price
- I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page – Laurie Halse Anderson
- We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love – it is not the book itself, but the binding. – Deb Caletti
- A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
- A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- (I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story), – David Halberstam
- Mistake is a single page in a part of Life ….but Relation is a book of dictionary —–So don’t lose a full Book for a single page. – Rubeccapalm Rose
- You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. – Jodi Picoult
- Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
- We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves. – Vironika Tugaleva
- Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others. – Orrin Woodward
- Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. – Thomas Sowell
- Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason. – Miguel Queah
- Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric. – Amitav Chowdhury
- Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth. – Anna Deavere Smith
- Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this – Haidji
- Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: -œPeace, freedom and liberty! – Carl William Brown
- We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric. – Anna Deavere Smith
- How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. – John Green
- Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new. – Frank Herbert
- Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? – George Eliot
- … a whole day’s tête-à -tête between two women can never end without a quarrel. – Jane Austen
- If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. – Winston S Churchill
- Huh, a lovers quarrel with a vampire- seems like a fantastic idea! – Joann I Martin Sowles