Carl Ludwig Siegel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.
I just talk a lot, that's the problem.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

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