A collection of writings about place space writing and art …
“That’s what all we are. Amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.”
– Charlie Chaplin, actor, director, composer, quote from the 1952 film “Limelight”
“That’s what all we are. Amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.” — Art of Quotation
” Sometimes people ask me what it takes to be a writer. The only things you have to do, I tell them, are read constantly; write for thousands of hours; and have the masochistic ability to absorb a great deal of rejection and isolation. As it turns out, these qualities have prepared me well to deal […]
via “Our real enemy is not the virus but our response to the virus.” — Art of Quotation
“Even aimless journeys have a purpose.” Tony Horwitz, 1959-2019, author, journalist, Pultizer Prize winner, quote from “One for the Road“
via In Memory: “Even aimless journeys have a purpose.” — Art of Quotation
“Magic comes through you – you don’t own it”
– Robby Krieger, guitarist, songwriter: Light My Fire (The Doors)
via “Magic comes through you – you don’t own it” — Art of Quotation
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited”
– Jorge Luis Borges, writer
“Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won’t be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It can’t help but be that. But more importantly, if you’re honest about […]
“If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.”
– Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”
– Carl Jung, author, psychiatrist
“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”
– Johannes Brahms, composer
via “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” — Art of Quotation
“A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood”
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
