If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
Peter ShafferTags: art metaphor new-york-city london
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
Peter ShafferTags: life life-lessons
All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.
Peter ShafferWhat the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?
Peter ShafferWhat did I expect of him? Very little, I promise you. One more dented little face. One more adolescent freak. The usual unusual. One great thing about being in the adjustment business: you're never short of customers.
Peter ShafferWhat use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
Peter ShafferGoodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
Peter ShafferTell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?
Peter ShafferTags: history immortality
I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!
Peter ShafferTags: art mozart artistic-substance musical-history salieri
Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?
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