Цитаты Kehlen
Декабрь 2009 г.
26 декабря 2009 г.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
26 декабря 2009 г.
When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution.
26 декабря 2009 г.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
26 декабря 2009 г.
Basil, my dear boy, puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices, his principles, and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
26 декабря 2009 г.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
Октябрь 2009 г.
19 октября 2009 г.
It's hopeless, anyway. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.
19 октября 2009 г.
If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
Август 2009 г.
13 августа 2009 г.
I don't believe in sudden conversions. They are shallow, superficial things. All a I want is to put the thing before the people as clearly as I can. I just tell them the truth and why we know it is the truth. Then my job is done. They can take it or leave it. If they are wise they will explore along the paths that I indicate. If they are unwise they miss their chance. I don't want to press them or to proselytize. It's their affair, not mine.
The Land of Mist
13 августа 2009 г.
People who are earnest are always interesting, whether you agree with them or not [...].
The Land of Mist
Фраза, которую надо бы сделать эпиграфом к "Туманной стране". Потому что эта повесть именно так и написана.
1 августа 2009 г.
Avides de tout et de rien, la majorité des jeunes veulent avant tout gagner du fric, le plus rapidement possible et en en faisant le moins possible. Je ne leur jette pas la pierre, ils ont le fruit d'une société aveuglément engagée dans la course au profit, à la standardisation, à la démission de l'esprit critique.
1 августа 2009 г.
Les gens n'aiment pas connaître vos problèmes, ils ont les leurs et cela leur suffit.
1 августа 2009 г.
...le fait d'être matraqué sur les chaînes de radio et de télévision ne suffit pas forcément. Encore faut-il que le public; constamment sollicité par une ribambelle d'artistes, ait envie de ce procurer leur disques. Sortir quelques euros de son porte-monnaie, c'est l'engagement de la fidélité, la preuve qu'il y a plus qu'un engouement passager.
1 августа 2009 г.
...il est souvent préférable de ne jamais approcher certains artistes pour ne pas démystifier les stars qu'ils sont à nos yeux.
Июнь 2009 г.
26 июня 2009 г.
L'euro a été inventé pour rendre les salaires des riches six foix moins indécents.
20 июня 2009 г.
Traduttore - traditore.
Переводчик - предатель (итал.).
7 июня 2009 г.
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only a critic.
The Blue Cross
Май 2009 г.
18 мая 2009 г.
Когда на меня упали ворота, я всем своим существом понял, что действительно вернулся домой.
Апрель 2009 г.
10 апреля 2009 г.
Украл - молчи, нашёл - молчи, потерял - молчи.
Март 2009 г.
14 марта 2009 г.
Про распределение орденов и медалей в отряде по окончании турецкой войны, глава восьмая:
На шестьдесят оставшихся в живых человек, почти за пять месяцев отчаянной боевой работы, за разгон шаек, за десятки взятых в плен и перебитых в схватках баши-бузуков, за наши потери ранеными и убитыми, нам прислали восемь медалей, которые мы распределили между особенно храбрыми, не имевшими ещё за войну Георгиевских крестов; хотя эти последние, также отличившиеся, и теперь тоже стоили наград, но они ничего не получили, во-первых, потому, что эта награда была ниже креста, а во-вторых, чтобы не обидеть совсем не награждённых товарищей. Восьмерым храбрецам даны были медали, семеро из них радовались как дети, а Инал Асланов ругательски ругался и приставал к нам:
- Пачему тэбэ дали крест с джигитом на коне, а мэнэ миндал с царским мордам? - очень обижался старик.
14 марта 2009 г.
Ch. 21 :
Il est très simple : on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Февраль 2009 г.
20 февраля 2009 г.
Chez moi, c'est tout petit.
