+ I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss – you can’t do it alone. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Cheever, Kissing, Writing, 0 - John Cheever Writer
+ Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Cheever, Fear, Knives, Worry, 0 - John Cheever Writer
+ The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Cheever, Make Sense, Writing, 0 - John Cheever Writer
+ I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Cheever, Criticism, Love You, Possibility, 0 - John Cheever Writer
+ Without a reader, I cannot write. It’s like a kiss: they cannot be done alone. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Cheever, Kissing, Writing, 0 - John Cheever Writer
+ Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil – not the strength to choose between the two. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Cheever, Evil, Wisdom, 0 - John Cheever Writer
+ Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Cheever, Stories, Writing, 0 - John Cheever Writer
+ The short story is the literature of the nomad. Feraz Zeid, August 26, 2023December 24, 2023, John Cheever, Stories, 0 - John Cheever Writer
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
