“El verdadero artista -dijo entonces- no crea el arte mismo como objetivo final. Crea el arte para el hombre, para traerle alegría, para moldear su espíritu, para rescatarlo de sus pesares. Dicho en otra forma: el arte ligado a una actitud social...”
― Estuche para dos violines
― Estuche para dos violines
“People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
“Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“When the scientific experts finished giving their testimony, the presiding judge asked Van Meegeren if he had any comments...He then added dryly that, from now on, the faking of old-master paintings would, of course, be impossible.”
― The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
― The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
“He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had never actually been introduced to one or shaken its hand.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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