Stendhal Art Quotes & Sayings

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything. — Mason Cooley

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. — Stendhal

Stoneville seems like a decent enough chap."
She stifled a hysterical laugh. "Oh, yes, quite decent. We met him in a brothel, and he's blackmailing us into deceiving his grandmother. — Sabrina Jeffries

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. — Stendhal

Proust, who did not greatly admire Flaubert, except perhaps in his narrow sense as a stylist - or perhaps only did not care very much for his work - nevertheless owed him a great deal, without realizing how much. From Flaubert he obtained the art of expressing his characters indirectly, through a monologue interieur. This method of characterization is one of Flaubert's greatest contributions to the art of fiction and, as we have seen in Madame Bovary, it is very different from the direct method of characterization practised by Balzac and Stendhal. — Enid Starkie

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. — Stendhal

I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles. — Peter Senge

Don't work harder, work happier. — Alexander Kjerulf

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. — Rosa Luxemburg

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? — Albert J. Nock

Stendhal wrote that music was the highest form of art and that all the other forms really wanted to be music. This was of course a Platonic idea, all the other art forms depict something else, music is the only one that is something in itself, it was absolutely incomparable. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart. — Robert Burns

In order to be something, you must do something. — Alejandro Jodorowsky