Philippe Nericault Destouches quotes

“Criticism is easy, art is difficult.”
-- Philippe Nericault Destouches

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“The absent are always in the wrong”
-- Philippe Nericault Destouches

Source : "L'Obstacle Imprévu" by Philippe Néricault Destouches, translated by Nérine, Act I., Scene VI, 1717.

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“Those not present are always wrong.”
-- Philippe Nericault Destouches

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“When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.”
-- Philippe Nericault Destouches

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“Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.”
-- Philippe Nericault Destouches

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“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”

“Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.”

“Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.”

“I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.”

“Silence is a text easy to misread.”

Source : A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Eagle and the Sword”, Harper Prism

“Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.”

“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”

Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.

“For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.”

“Be hard on yourself, easy on others.”