Ray Bradbury Quotes

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of what it was like to be alive on the planet in a particular time. Writing tells us what it meant for someone to be human.

Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

We have art in order not to die of life.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.