Marcel Proust on art
Marcel Proust79 quotes“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.”
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
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Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Ray BradburyRay Bradbury The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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