“True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.

Fonte: https://le-citazioni.it/community/translations/243231/#_=_”

“Nota: 1960s, "Specific Objects," 1965, Context: A work needs only to be interesting. Most works finally have one quality. In earlier art the complexity was displayed and built the quality. In recent painting the complexity was in the format and the few main shapes, which had been made according to various interests and problems. A painting by Newman is finally no simpler than one by Cezanne. In the three-dimensional work the whole thing is made according to complex purposes, and these are not scattered but asserted by one form. It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful. p. 77. Partly quoted in: Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.), ‎Barbara Rose (1967) New aesthetic: Exhibition May 6-June 25, 1967. p. 45

Origine: https://le-citazioni.it/community/translations/188146/”

Donald Judd (1928–1994) artista statunitense

“To ask the mind to kill the mind | is like making the thief, | when I reach the selfish stage | I enjoy a certain pleasure, | but sometimes a vague fear | which I cannot describe.”

Franco Battiato (1945) musicista, cantautore e regista italiano

“There's no reason for you to love me | after all of the heartaches we've been through. | But I love you, I just can't help it. | You're so beautiful, what else shall I do? | You say you didn't make me love you | and you tell me that you're not to blame. | But it still hurt me the same. | Darling, love is not a game. | 'Cause it hurts, oh. | It hurts, yeah. (da It Hurts, n. 3)”

Greg Lake (1947–2016) chitarrista, bassista e cantante britannico

“It is for this reason that art, true art, the one that comes from the soul, is so important in our lives. Art consoles us, it lifts us and directs us. Art cures us. We are not only that which we eat and the air that we breathe. We are also the stories we have heard, the tales we fell asleep listening to when we were children, the books we have read, the music we heard and the emotions that a painting, a statue, or a poem have given us.

L'arte, quella vera, quella che viene dall'anima, è così importante nella nostra vita. L'arte ci consola, ci solleva, l'arte ci orienta. L'arte ci cura. Noi non siamo solo quello che mangiamo e l'aria che respiriamo. Siamo anche le storie che abbiamo sentito, le favole con cui ci hanno addormentato da bambini, i libri che abbiamo letto, la musica che abbiamo ascoltato e le emozioni che un quadro, una statua, una poesia ci hanno dato.

(La fine è il Mio Inizio)”

Tiziano Terzani (1938–2004) giornalista e scrittore italiano

“«Michelangelo once said, “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”»
Ken Robinson::
Tʜᴇ Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ: Hᴏᴡ Fɪɴᴅɪɴɢ Yᴏᴜʀ Pᴀssɪᴏɴ Cʜᴀɴɢᴇs Eᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ
§ Aғᴛᴇʀᴡᴏʀᴅ: §§ Aɪᴍɪɴɢ Hɪɢʜ
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Sir Ken Robinson (1950) educatore e scrittore britannico

“Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?

Fonte: https://le-citazioni.it/autori/viggo-mortensen/”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) scrittore, umorista, aforista e docente statunitense

“Young And Wired, Set To explode in the heat.”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) cantante, musicista e attore statunitense

“We cannot excuse you | for your behaviour, | the great China, | the divine empire, | has fallen into dishonour. | Politicians kill the monks, | refusing to listen and to reason. | Keep your hands off Tibet now.”

Franco Battiato (1945) musicista, cantautore e regista italiano

“Il Dio del cristianesimo non è il Dio violento della religione arcaica, ma il Dio non violento che si fa volentieri vittima per liberarci dalla nostra violenza
"The Scandal of Christianity" in Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture (2007)

Fonte: https://le-citazioni.it/community/translations/245558/”

René Girard (1923–2015) critico letterario e antropologo francese