There are three rules for writing a novel; unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
William Somerset Maugham
Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.
Joseph Joubert
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
Johnathan Swift
He can who thinks he can, and he can`t who thinks he can`t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.
Johnathan Swift
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
George Sand
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don`t start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Heinrich Heine
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added and nothing taken away.
Joseph Joubert
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
Pablo Picasso
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
William Somerset Maugham
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
Gustave Flaubert
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.
Anton Chekhov
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
Mark Twain
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Pablo Picasso
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
Germaine de Stael
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Art produces ugly things, which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things, which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso