Life And Art Quotes

“That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“Sorry I didn’t do better,” he said. “I’ll have to come back another year and have another lesson.”
I clenched my hands and clung hard to this promise that I knew he couldn’t keep. I wanted to rebel against what was happening, against the clumsiness and crudity of life, but instead I stood quiet a moment, almost passive, then wheeled away and carried his cornet to the buggy.
(Cornet at Night)”
― Sinclair Ross, The Lamp at Noon

“What exactly she was thinking I never knew. Perhaps of the crop and the whole day’s stoking lost. Perhaps of the stranger who had come with his cornet for a day, and then as meaninglessly gone again. For she had been listening too, and she may have understood. A harvest, however lean, is certain every year; but a cornet at night is golden only once.
(Cornet at Night)”
― Sinclair Ross, The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories