What did Dan Simmons mean by: Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move. Dan Simmons Author · USA Copy
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, Dan Simmons, Imagination, Perception, Transformation, 0 Dan Simmons Author · USA
Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, Dan Simmons, Consequences, Power, Resistance, 0 Dan Simmons Author · USA
Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, Dan Simmons, Truth, Words, 0 Dan Simmons Author · USA
It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, Dan Simmons, Communication, Dependence, Survival, 0 Dan Simmons Author · USA
The problem with being passionately in love … is that it deprives you of too much sleep. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, Dan Simmons, Love, Passion, Sleep, 0 Dan Simmons Author · USA
The truth is, it’s not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, Dan Simmons, Career, Loyalty, Readership, 0 Dan Simmons Author · USA
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, Dan Simmons, Calmness, Fullness, Pain, 0 Dan Simmons Author · USA
Sometimes … dreams are all that separate us from the machines. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, Dan Simmons, Dreams, Machines, Separation, 0 Dan Simmons Author · USA
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. Jean-Georges Noverre Choreographer · France
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
