All F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Quotes about “Art”

“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
“Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.”
“Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.”
“Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”
“Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.”
“Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.”
“When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: "Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.”
“To most women art is a form of scandal.”
“Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.”

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