Sergei Diaghilev quotes

Sergei Diaghilev quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.”
-- Sergei Diaghilev

Source : "Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance" by Luke Jennings, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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“Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.”
-- Sergei Diaghilev

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“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”
“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”
“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”
“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
“I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.”
“Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.”
“God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut”

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